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title: But Tiny knew it would make the field-mouse very grieved if she left… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But Tiny knew it would make the field-mouse very grieved if she left her in that manner, so she said, "No, I cannot." Who acts: Tiny, sun, mole. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 116

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But Tiny knew it would make the field-mouse very grieved if she left her in that manner, so she said, "No, I cannot."

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**Who acts:** Tiny, sun, mole · **What happens:** know, make, grieve, leave, say · **To what, where:** field mouse, mole, manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, sun, mole), 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:pg27200:79:116
# text = But Tiny knew it would make the field-mouse very grieved if she left her in that manner, so she said, "No, I cannot."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Tiny |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | would | sun | the field mouse |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material mouse=Product |
| 3 | **grieve** | past | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Tiny | mole |  | that manner |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in manner=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mole |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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