--- title: “O warm spicy land of my birth,” sang the Canary bird; “I will sing… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “O warm spicy land of my birth,” sang the Canary bird; “I will sing of thy dark-green bowers, of the calm bays where the pendent boughs kiss the surface of the water; I will sing of the rejoicing of all my brothers and sisters where the cactus grows in wanton luxuriance.” Who acts: warm spicy land, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/23/) [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/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/) / [The Shoes of Fortune, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/) / 23 # Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 23 “O warm spicy land of my birth,” sang the Canary bird; “I will sing of thy dark-green bowers, of the calm bays where the pendent boughs kiss the surface of the water; I will sing of the rejoicing of all my brothers and sisters where the cactus grows in wanton luxuriance.” **Who acts:** warm spicy land, pendent boughs, cactus · **What happens:** sing, kiss, grow, rejoice · **To what, where:** Canary bird, surface, wanton luxuriance, brothers · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warm spicy land, pendent boughs, cactus), 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:pg1597:9:23 # text = “O warm spicy land of my birth,” sang the Canary bird; “I will sing of thy dark-green bowers, of the calm bays where the pendent boughs kiss the surface of the water; I will sing of the rejoicing of all my brothers and sisters where the cactus grows in wanton luxuriance.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 O o INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 3 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 4 spicy spicy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 birth birth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 11 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 Canary canary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 21 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 25 nmod:poss _ _ 22 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 bowers bower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 bays bay NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 appos _ _ 31 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 pendent pendent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 boughs bough NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 kiss kiss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 surface surface NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 parataxis _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 rejoicing rejoicing NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 49 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 51 det:predet _ _ 50 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 51 nmod:poss _ _ 51 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ _ 54 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 57 advmod _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 cactus cactus NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 57 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 53 acl:relcl _ _ 58 in in ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 wanton wanton NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ _ 60 luxuriance luxuriance NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ” " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | warm spicy land of my birth | the Canary bird | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | future | warm spicy land of my birth *= land* | | | | | of thy green bowers | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 3 | **kiss** *in a quote* | present | the pendent boughs | the surface of the water | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Co-Agent | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | future | warm spicy land of my birth *= land* | | | | | of the rejoicing of my brothers and sisters | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 5 | **grow** *in a quote* | present | the cactus | | | wanton luxuriance | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in luxuriance=Location | | 6 | **rejoice** *in a quote* | | | my brothers and sisters | | | | | nom rejoicing «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/24/) - ↑ back to [The Shoes of Fortune, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg1597/9/)