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title: When autumn arrived, Tiny had her outfit quite ready; and the field-… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: When autumn arrived, Tiny had her outfit quite ready; and the field-mouse said to her, "In four weeks the wedding must take place." Who acts: autumn, Tiny, field mouse, wedding. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 136

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When autumn arrived, Tiny had her outfit quite ready; and the field-mouse said to her, "In four weeks the wedding must take place."

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**Who acts:** autumn, Tiny, field mouse, wedding · **What happens:** arrive, have, say, take · **To what, where:** outfit, Tiny, place · **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 (autumn, Tiny, field mouse, wedding), 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:pg27200:79:136
# text = When autumn arrived, Tiny had her outfit quite ready; and the field-mouse said to her, "In four weeks the wedding must take place."
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	outfit	outfit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	In	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	weeks	week	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
29	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | autumn |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Tiny | Tiny's outfit |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outfit=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the field mouse |  | Tiny |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | must | the wedding | place |  |  | week |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |

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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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