--- title: Hear the story of the year: "The night of the snow-storm, the heavy… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Hear the story of the year: "The night of the snow-storm, the heavy dream of the winter night, all shall be dissolved, all shall rise again in the beauteous notes of the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies!" Who acts: you, snow storm, all, Bird. 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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 (you, snow storm, all, Bird), 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:pg27200:11:53 # text = Hear the story of the year: "The night of the snow-storm, the heavy dream of the winter night, all shall be dissolved, all shall rise again in the beauteous notes of the Bird of Popular Song, who never dies!" 1 Hear hear VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 winter winter NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 dissolved dissolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 nsubj _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 parataxis _ _ 33 again again ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 beauteous beauteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 Popular popular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 Song Song PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 47 nsubj _ _ 46 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 47 advmod _ _ 47 dies die VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* | the story of the year | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **dissolve** *in a quote* | shall · passive | the snow storm *not said here* | all | | | | | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **rise** *in a quote* | shall | all | | | the beauteous notes of the Bird of Popular Song | again; night | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in note=Location | | 4 | **not** **die** *in a quote* | present | the Bird of Popular Song | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **dream** *in a quote* | | | the winter night | | | | | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=patient | | 6 | **note** *in a quote* | | | the Bird of Popular Song | | | | | nom note «communication 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:** «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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/52/) - next →: [The Bishop of Borglum and Hi…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/12/1/) - ↑ back to [The Bird of Popular Song](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/11/)