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title: And when the teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny louder, Who acts: teeny tiny woman, tiny louder. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 114

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And when the teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny louder,

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**Who acts:** teeny tiny woman, tiny louder · **What happens:** be, sleep, say · **To what, where:** teeny tiny cupboard · **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 (teeny tiny woman, tiny louder), 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:pg7439:15:114
# text = And when the teeny-tiny woman had been to sleep again a teeny-tiny time, the teeny-tiny voice from the teeny-tiny cupboard said again a teeny-tiny louder,
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	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	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|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	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
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	cupboard	cupboard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
30	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	teeny	teeny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past · perfect | the teeny tiny woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | again; time |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a tiny louder |  |  | the teeny tiny cupboard | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:** «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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