--- title: The little bird sang his own song merrily; in the street below there… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The little bird sang his own song merrily; in the street below there was driving and running to and fro, every one thought of his own affairs, or perhaps of nothing at all; but the bottle neck thought deeply. Who acts: little bird, bottle neck, bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Ande --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/14/) [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 Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/) / 14 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bottle Neck, sentence 14 The little bird sang his own song merrily; in the street below there was driving and running to and fro, every one thought of his own affairs, or perhaps of nothing at all; but the bottle neck thought deeply. **Who acts:** little bird, bottle neck, bird · **What happens:** sing, drive, run, fro, think · **To what, where:** own song, one thought, own affairs This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bottle Neck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bird, bottle neck, 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:pg27200:13:14 # text = The little bird sang his own song merrily; in the street below there was driving and running to and fro, every one thought of his own affairs, or perhaps of nothing at all; but the bottle neck thought deeply. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 6 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 merrily merrily ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 13 below below ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 14 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 15 expl _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 running run VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 conj _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 18 fixed _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 fro fro VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 28 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 affairs affair NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 perhaps perhaps ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 29 appos _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 43 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the little bird | bird's own song | | | | merrily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 2 | **drive** | past · progressive | the little bird *not said here* | every one thought of bird's own affairs | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **run** | gerund | the little bird *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fro** | infinitive | the little bird *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the bottle neck | | | | | deeply *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sing** | | bird | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **think** | | | bird's own affairs | | | | | nom thought «cognition 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 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/13/) - next →: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/15/) - ↑ back to [The Bottle Neck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/13/)