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title: As soon as he spied Tiny, he was delighted; and then she told him ho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as he spied Tiny, he was delighted; and then she told him how unwilling she felt to marry the ugly mole, and to live always beneath the earth, and never to see the bright sun any more. Who acts: Tweet, child. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Ti
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 150

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As soon as he spied Tiny, he was delighted; and then she told him how unwilling she felt to marry the ugly mole, and to live always beneath the earth, and never to see the bright sun any more.

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**Who acts:** Tweet, child · **What happens:** spy, be, tell, unwill, feel, marry · **To what, where:** Tweet, ugly mole, earth, bright sun · **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 (Tweet, child), 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:pg27200:79:150
# text = As soon as he spied Tiny, he was delighted; and then she told him how unwilling she felt to marry the ugly mole, and to live always beneath the earth, and never to see the bright sun any more.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	spied	spy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
18	unwilling	unwill	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	ccomp	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mole	mole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
30	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
31	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	any	any	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spy** | past | Tweet |  |  |  |  | soon, tiny *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Tweet |  |  |  |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | child |  | Tweet |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **unwill** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **feel** | past | child |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **marry** | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | the ugly mole |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Patient |
| 7 | **live** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the earth |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath earth=Location |
| 8 | **not** **see** | to-infinitive |  | the bright sun |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |

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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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