--- title: As these told their tales, there fluttered around them, with twitter… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: As these told their tales, there fluttered around them, with twittering and song, the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies so long as the earth has a hill upon which his foot may rest. Who acts: these, Popular Song, earth, foot. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anderse --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/29/) [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/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Bird of Popular Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/) / 29 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bird of Popular Song, sentence 29 As these told their tales, there fluttered around them, with twittering and song, the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies so long as the earth has a hill upon which his foot may rest. **Who acts:** these, Popular Song, earth, foot, windows · **What happens:** tell, flutter, not die, have, rest · **To what, where:** tales, hill · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (these, Popular Song, earth, foot), 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:pg27200:11:29 # text = As these told their tales, there fluttered around them, with twittering and song, the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies so long as the earth has a hill upon which his foot may rest. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 3 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 fluttered flutter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 around around ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 twittering twittering NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 Popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 Song Song PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 upon upon ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 obl _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | these | windows's tales | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 2 | **flutter** | participle | | | | there | | around windows *= window* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around they=Location | | 3 | **not** **die** | present | Popular Song | | | | | long *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 4 | **have** | present | the earth | a hill | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Patient | | 5 | **rest** | may | Song's foot | | | a hill | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location | | 6 | **tell** | | windows *= window* | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/30/) - ↑ back to [The Bird of Popular Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/)