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title: The tiny little creature woke very early in the morning, and began t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The tiny little creature woke very early in the morning, and began to cry bitterly when she found where she was, for she could see nothing but water on every side of the large green leaf, and no way of reaching the land. Who acts: tiny little creature, creature, way. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Ha
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 24

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The tiny little creature woke very early in the morning, and began to cry bitterly when she found where she was, for she could see nothing but water on every side of the large green leaf, and no way of reaching the land.

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**Who acts:** tiny little creature, creature, way · **What happens:** wake, begin, cry, find, be, reach · **To what, where:** side, land · **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 little creature, creature, way), 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:pg27200:79:24
# text = The tiny little creature woke very early in the morning, and began to cry bitterly when she found where she was, for she could see nothing but water on every side of the large green leaf, and no way of reaching the land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	27	obj	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	42	det	_	_
42	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
43	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
44	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	42	acl	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | past | the tiny little creature |  |  |  | morning | early *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the tiny little creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | the tiny little creature *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bitterly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | past | creature |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | could · past | creature |  |  | every side of the large green leaf |  | see *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **reach** | gerund | no way *not said here* | the land |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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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