--- title: Her sweet little mouth was never still a moment, and all that she sa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Her sweet little mouth was never still a moment, and all that she said sounded in Rudy's ears as matters of the greatest importance, and at last he told her what he was longing to tell. Who acts: sweet little mouth, arm, Rudy, greatest importance. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Anderse --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/164/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/) / 164 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 164 Her sweet little mouth was never still a moment, and all that she said sounded in Rudy's ears as matters of the greatest importance, and at last he told her what he was longing to tell. **Who acts:** sweet little mouth, arm, Rudy, greatest importance · **What happens:** not be, say, sound, tell, long, matter · **To what, where:** moment, ears, arm, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweet little mouth, arm, Rudy, greatest importance), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:55:164 # text = Her sweet little mouth was never still a moment, and all that she said sounded in Rudy's ears as matters of the greatest importance, and at last he told her what he was longing to tell. 1 Her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 6 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 16 sounded sound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 ears ear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 matters matter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 26 amod _ _ 26 importance importance NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 iobj _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 obj _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 longing long VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 ccomp _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | past | arm's sweet little mouth | a moment | | | still | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | arm | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **sound** | participle | arm *not said here* | | | Rudy's ears | | as matters of the greatest importance | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Rudy | | arm | last | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **long** | past · progressive | Rudy | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rudy *not said here* | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **matter** | | the greatest importance | | | | | | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Text:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/163/) - next →: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/165/) - ↑ back to [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/)