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title: The largest of these leaves appeared farther off than the rest, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The largest of these leaves appeared farther off than the rest, and the old toad swam out to it with the walnut-shell, in which little Tiny lay still asleep. Who acts: largest leaves, old toad. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 23

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The largest of these leaves appeared farther off than the rest, and the old toad swam out to it with the walnut-shell, in which little Tiny lay still asleep.

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**Who acts:** largest leaves, old toad · **What happens:** appear, swim out · **To what, where:** rest

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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 (largest leaves, old toad), 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:pg27200:79:23
# text = The largest of these leaves appeared farther off than the rest, and the old toad swam out to it with the walnut-shell, in which little Tiny lay still asleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **appear** | past | the largest leaves |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **swim out** | past | the old toad |  |  | rest |  | with the walnut shell; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |

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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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