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title: "You poor little creature," said the field-mouse, who was really a g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "You poor little creature," said the field-mouse, who was really a good old field-mouse, "come into my warm room and dine with me." Who acts: You, poor little creature, field mouse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 68

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"You poor little creature," said the field-mouse, who was really a good old field-mouse, "come into my warm room and dine with me."

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**Who acts:** You, poor little creature, field mouse · **What happens:** creature, say, be, come, dine · **To what, where:** field mouse, good old field mouse, warm room · **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 (You, poor little creature, field mouse), 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:pg27200:79:68
# text = "You poor little creature," said the field-mouse, who was really a good old field-mouse, "come into my warm room and dine with me."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
16	really	really	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creature** *in a quote* |  | You |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | poor little creature | the field mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the field mouse | a good old field mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  | my warm room |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **dine** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with poor little creature *= creature* | vn dine-39.5 «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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