--- title: As soon as they caught sight of her, they saw she was very pretty, a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as they caught sight of her, they saw she was very pretty, and it made them very sorry to think that she must go and live with the ugly toads. " Who acts: fishes, toad, sight. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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" **Who acts:** fishes, toad, sight · **What happens:** catch, see, be, make, think, go · **To what, where:** sight, fishes, toad · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (fishes, toad, sight), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg27200:79:32 # text = As soon as they caught sight of her, they saw she was very pretty, and it made them very sorry to think that she must go and live with the ugly toads. " 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 11 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 very very ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 live live VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 31 with with ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 ugly ugly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 toads toad NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past | fishes *= fish* | sight of toad | | | | soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | fishes *= fish* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | past | toad | | | | | pretty *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** | past | sight | fishes *= fish* | | | | sorry *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material they=Product | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | sight *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **go** | must | toad | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **live** | infinitive | toad *not said here* | | | | | with the ugly toads | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with toad=Location | | 8 | **sight** | | | toad | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/33/) - ↑ back to [Little Tiny or Thumbelina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/)