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title: And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny churchyar… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self, “This teeny-tiny bone will make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper.” Who acts: tiny woman, woman, teeny tiny wom
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# English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 106

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And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self, “This teeny-tiny bone will make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper.”

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**Who acts:** tiny woman, woman, teeny tiny woman, tiny bone · **What happens:** get, see, say, make · **To what, where:** teeny tiny churchyard, teeny tiny bone, teeny tiny grave, teeny tiny self, tiny soup, teeny tiny woman · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, tiny bone), 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:pg7439:15:106
# text = And when this teeny-tiny woman had got into the teeny-tiny churchyard, she saw a teeny-tiny bone on a teeny-tiny grave, and the teeny-tiny woman said to her teeny-tiny self, “This teeny-tiny bone will make me some teeny-tiny soup for my teeny-tiny supper.”
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
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	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	churchyard	churchyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|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	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
40	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
45	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	det	_	_
47	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	bone	bone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
53	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	58	det	_	_
55	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
59	for	for	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
60	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
61	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	61	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | this tiny woman |  |  | the teeny tiny churchyard |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into churchyard=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | woman | a teeny tiny bone |  | a teeny tiny grave |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the teeny tiny woman |  | woman's teeny tiny self |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to self=Recipient |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | future | this tiny bone | some tiny soup | the teeny tiny woman *= woman* |  |  | for my tiny supper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary soup=Product for supper=Asset |

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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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