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title: And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way she came to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way she came to a teeny-tiny gate; so the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate, and went into a teeny-tiny churchyard. Who acts: tiny woman, woman, teeny tiny woman. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes, with 
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# English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 105

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And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way she came to a teeny-tiny gate; so the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate, and went into a teeny-tiny churchyard.

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**Who acts:** tiny woman, woman, teeny tiny woman · **What happens:** go, come, open · **To what, where:** teeny tiny way, teeny tiny gate, teeny tiny churchyard

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tiny woman, woman, teeny tiny woman), 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:pg7439:15:105
# text = And when this teeny-tiny woman had gone a teeny-tiny way she came to a teeny-tiny gate; so the teeny-tiny woman opened the teeny-tiny gate, and went into a teeny-tiny churchyard.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
4	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
41	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · perfect | this tiny woman | a teeny tiny way |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | woman | a teeny tiny way *not said here* |  |  |  | to a teeny tiny gate | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
| 3 | **open** | past | the teeny tiny woman | the teeny tiny gate |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | the teeny tiny woman *not said here* |  |  | a teeny tiny churchyard |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into churchyard=Initial\_Location |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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