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title: "Thanks, thanks, you heavenly little bird. — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Thanks, thanks, you heavenly little bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 142

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"Thanks, thanks, you heavenly little bird.

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg27200:125:142
# text = "Thanks, thanks, you heavenly little bird.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	_
7	heavenly	heavenly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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