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title: Tiny trembled very much; she was quite frightened, for the bird was… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Tiny trembled very much; she was quite frightened, for the bird was large, a great deal larger than herself,--she was only an inch high. Who acts: Tiny, bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 102

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Tiny trembled very much; she was quite frightened, for the bird was large, a great deal larger than herself,--she was only an inch high.

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**Who acts:** Tiny, bird · **What happens:** tremble, frighten, be · **To what, where:** Tiny, inch

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiny, bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:79:102
# text = Tiny trembled very much; she was quite frightened, for the bird was large, a great deal larger than herself,--she was only an inch high.
1	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	parataxis	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
30	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | past | Tiny |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | Tiny |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | the bird |  |  |  |  | large *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Tiny | a inch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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.

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