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title: "Croak, croak, croak," was all her son could say for himself; so the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Croak, croak, croak," was all her son could say for himself; so the toad took up the elegant little bed, and swam away with it, leaving Tiny all alone on the green leaf, where she sat and wept. Who acts: Croak, toad. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 29

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"Croak, croak, croak," was all her son could say for himself; so the toad took up the elegant little bed, and swam away with it, leaving Tiny all alone on the green leaf, where she sat and wept.

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**Who acts:** Croak, toad · **What happens:** be, take up, swim away, leave, sit, weep · **To what, where:** elegant little bed, green leaf

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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 (Croak, 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:pg27200:79:29
# text = "Croak, croak, croak," was all her son could say for himself; so the toad took up the elegant little bed, and swam away with it, leaving Tiny all alone on the green leaf, where she sat and wept.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Croak	croak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	croak	croak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	croak	croak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
35	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	xcomp	_	_
36	all	all	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	45	advmod	_	_
44	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	acl:relcl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could · past | Croak and croak and croak |  |  |  |  | for lay; all, say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take up** | past | the toad | the elegant little bed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
| 3 | **swim away** | past | the toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with bed; away *property* | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with it=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | the toad *not said here* |  |  | the green leaf |  | alone, tiny *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on leaf=Location |
| 5 | **sit** | past | toad |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **weep** | past | toad *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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