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title: And all the birds sang the same tune, the flowers danced on their st… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the birds sang the same tune, the flowers danced on their stems, and the old trees nodded as if Ole-Luk-Oie had been telling them stories as well. Who acts: birds, flowers, Ole. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, with its dep
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 57

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And all the birds sang the same tune, the flowers danced on their stems, and the old trees nodded as if Ole-Luk-Oie had been telling them stories as well.

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**Who acts:** birds, flowers, Ole · **What happens:** sing, dance, nod, tell, stem · **To what, where:** same tune, stems, old trees, stories, flowers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, flowers, Ole), 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:pg27200:134:57
# text = And all the birds sang the same tune, the flowers danced on their stems, and the old trees nodded as if Ole-Luk-Oie had been telling them stories as well.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
21	nodded	nod	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
24	Ole	Ole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Luk	Luk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Oie	Oie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux	_	_
31	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	iobj	_	_
33	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	31	advmod	_	_
35	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | all birds | the same tune |  |  |  | the old trees *obl* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | past | the flowers | the same tune *not said here* |  | flowers's stems |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme |
| 3 | **nod** | participle |  | the old trees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · progressive | Ole and Luk and Oie | stories | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic |
| 5 | **stem** |  | flowers *= flower* |  |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: poss=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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