--- title: Alas!” he sighed quite sorrowful, and gazed at the chirping birds th… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Alas!” he sighed quite sorrowful, and gazed at the chirping birds that hopped contentedly from branch to branch, “they are much better off than I! Who acts: remembrance, chirping birds, birds. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (remembrance, chirping birds, birds), 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:pg1597:8:82 # text = Alas!” he sighed quite sorrowful, and gazed at the chirping birds that hopped contentedly from branch to branch, “they are much better off than I! 1 Alas alas INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 sighed sigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 quite quite ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 sorrowful sorrowful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 gazed gaze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 chirping chirp VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 amod _ _ 14 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hopped hop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 contentedly contentedly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 “ " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 26 much much ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 conj _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sigh** *in a quote* | past | remembrance | | | | | sorrowful *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **gaze** *in a quote* | past | remembrance *not said here* | | | | | at the chirping birds | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at bird=Theme | | 3 | **chirp** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hop** *in a quote* | past | the chirping birds | | | branch | | to branch; contentedly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to branch=Destination | | 5 | **is** | present | birds *= bird* | | | | | than I; good *property* | tree rules | 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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/83/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/8/)