--- title: And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, “TAKE IT!” Who acts: this, woman. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes, with its dependency tree and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Cap O' Rushes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/) / 116 # English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 116 And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, “TAKE IT!” **Who acts:** this, woman · **What happens:** woman, be, put, say, take · **To what, where:** teeny tiny head, teeny tiny clothes, loudest teeny tiny voice, head · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (this, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:15:116 # text = And this teeny-tiny woman was a teeny-tiny bit more frightened, but she put her teeny-tiny head out of the teeny-tiny clothes, and said in her loudest teeny-tiny voice, “TAKE IT!” 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 3 teeny teeny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 9 teeny teeny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 14 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 19 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 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 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 24 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 27 teeny teeny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 36 loudest loud ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 amod _ _ 37 teeny teeny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 “ " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 TAKE take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ _ 44 IT it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ” " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **woman** | | this | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | | | | | | a tiny bit *obl:unmarked*; frightened *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **put** | past | woman | woman's teeny tiny head | | the teeny tiny clothes | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out clothes=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | woman *not said here* | | | woman's loudest teeny tiny voice | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | head | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/115/) - next →: [Jack and the Beanstalk, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/1/) - ↑ back to [Cap O' Rushes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/15/)