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title: The singing-bird soared away, over mountain and valley, over field a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The singing-bird soared away, over mountain and valley, over field and wood--he was the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies. Who acts: singing bird, bird, Popular Song. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 21

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The singing-bird soared away, over mountain and valley, over field and wood--he was the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies.

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**Who acts:** singing bird, bird, Popular Song · **What happens:** soar away, be, not die · **To what, where:** mountain, Bird

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singing bird, bird, Popular Song), 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:pg27200:11:21
# text = The singing-bird soared away, over mountain and valley, over field and wood--he was the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	soared	soar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soar away** | participle | the singing bird |  |  | mountain and valley |  | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme over mountain=Trajectory |
| 2 | **is a** | past | bird | the Bird |  |  |  | of Popular Song | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **die** | present | Popular Song |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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