--- title: He distinctly saw the little girl, with her bright blue eyes, peepin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He distinctly saw the little girl, with her bright blue eyes, peeping out from behind the petals, and heard her whispering, "Here it is beautiful in spring, in summer, in autumn, and in winter," and hundreds of pictures passed through his mind. Who acts: boy, whispering, girl. 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C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, whispering, girl), 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:pg27200:72:107 # text = He distinctly saw the little girl, with her bright blue eyes, peeping out from behind the petals, and heard her whispering, "Here it is beautiful in spring, in summer, in autumn, and in winter," and hundreds of pictures passed through his mind. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 distinctly distinctly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 peeping peep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 behind behind ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 petals petal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 whispering whispering NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 autumn autumn NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 pictures picture NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ _ 49 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 48 acl _ _ 50 through through ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | boy | the little girl | | | | distinctly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **peep out** | gerund | boy *not said here* | | | | | from the petals | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from petal=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | past | | girl's whispering | | | summer | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whispering=Stimulus | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | whispering | | | here | spring | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **pass** | participle | | pictures *not said here* | | boy's mind | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | | 6 | **whisper** | | girl | | | | | | nom whispering «event transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **mind** | | boy | | | | | | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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. 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