--- title: Tiny pleased him, and she was glad of it, for now the toad could not… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny pleased him, and she was glad of it, for now the toad could not possibly reach her, and the country through which she sailed was beautiful, and the sun shone upon the water, till it glittered like liquid gold. Who acts: Tiny, toad, country, sun. 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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 (Tiny, toad, country, sun), 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:pg27200:79:37 # text = Tiny pleased him, and she was glad of it, for now the toad could not possibly reach her, and the country through which she sailed was beautiful, and the sun shone upon the water, till it glittered like liquid gold. 1 Tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 pleased pleased ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 8 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 for for SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 toad toad NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 18 possibly possibly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 reach reach VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 advcl _ _ 20 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 25 through through ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 parataxis _ _ 36 upon upon ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 till till SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 glittered glitter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 43 like like ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 liquid liquid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Tiny | | | | | of last; glad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **reach** | could | the toad | Tiny | | | now | possibly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 3 | **sail** | past | Tiny | | | the country | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through which=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** | past | the country | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **shine** | past | the sun | | | the water | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon water=Location | | 6 | **glitter** | past | sun | | | | | like liquid gold | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/38/) - ↑ back to [Little Tiny or Thumbelina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/)