--- title: "What a pretty little wife this would make for my son," said the toa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "What a pretty little wife this would make for my son," said the toad, and she took up the walnut-shell in which little Tiny lay asleep, and jumped through the window with it into the garden. Who acts: this, toad, little Tiny. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (this, toad, little Tiny), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg27200:5699`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:79:17 # text = "What a pretty little wife this would make for my son," said the toad, and she took up the walnut-shell in which little Tiny lay asleep, and jumped through the window with it into the garden. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ _ 2 What what DET WDT PronType=Int 6 det:predet _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 7 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 nsubj _ _ 8 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 walnut walnut NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 24 punct _ _ 26 shell shell NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obl _ _ 29 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Tiny Tiny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 32 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 36 through through ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 44 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** *in a quote* | would | this | what little wife | | | | for my son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wife=Product for son=Beneficiary | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the toad | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **take up** | past | toad | the walnut shell | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme | | 4 | **lie** | past | little Tiny | | | the walnut shell | | asleep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location | | 5 | **jump** | past | toad *not said here* | | | the window | | with window; into the garden *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into garden=Result | 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. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/18/) - ↑ back to [Little Tiny or Thumbelina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/)