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title: And Thumbelina did all that the kind old field-mouse asked, and did… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Thumbelina did all that the kind old field-mouse asked, and did it remarkably well too. Who acts: Thumbelina, kind old field mouse. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 140

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And Thumbelina did all that the kind old field-mouse asked, and did it remarkably well too.

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**Who acts:** Thumbelina, kind old field mouse · **What happens:** do, ask · **To what, where:** all, mouse

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thumbelina, kind old 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:pg640:47:140
# text = And Thumbelina did all that the kind old field-mouse asked, and did it remarkably well too.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	remarkably	remarkably	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	15	advmod	_	_
18	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	_
19	too	too	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Thumbelina | all |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the kind old field mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past | Thumbelina *not said here* | mouse |  |  |  | remarkably *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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