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title: The bird sings not alone the requiem of heroes; he sings also sweet… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The bird sings not alone the requiem of heroes; he sings also sweet gentle songs of love, so many and so warm, of Northern fidelity and truth. Who acts: bird, love. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 23

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The bird sings not alone the requiem of heroes; he sings also sweet gentle songs of love, so many and so warm, of Northern fidelity and truth.

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**Who acts:** bird, love · **What happens:** not sing, sing · **To what, where:** requiem, sweet gentle songs

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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 (bird, love), 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:pg27200:11:23
# text = The bird sings not alone the requiem of heroes; he sings also sweet gentle songs of love, so many and so warm, of Northern fidelity and truth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	requiem	requiem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	heroes	hero	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	also	also	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | present | the bird | the requiem of heroes |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location requiem=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | bird | sweet gentle songs of love |  |  |  | of Northern fidelity and truth; many *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** |  | love |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=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:** «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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