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title: "Tweet, tweet!" said the little bird, for one of his wings being bro… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tweet, tweet!" said the little bird, for one of his wings being broken, he found it difficult to shake himself; but he quite understood that the bath was meant kindly, and he said, "You are very kind-hearted, madam;" but he did not wish for a second bath. Who acts: Tweet, bird, wing, You. A sentenc
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 21

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"Tweet, tweet!" said the little bird, for one of his wings being broken, he found it difficult to shake himself; but he quite understood that the bath was meant kindly, and he said, "You are very kind-hearted, madam;" but he did not wish for a second bath.

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**Who acts:** Tweet, bird, wing, You · **What happens:** say, break, find, shake, understand, mean · **To what, where:** little bird, wings, wing, bird, bath · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tweet, bird, wing, You), 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:pg27200:145:21
# text = "Tweet, tweet!" said the little bird, for one of his wings being broken, he found it difficult to shake himself; but he quite understood that the bath was meant kindly, and he said, "You are very kind-hearted, madam;" but he did not wish for a second bath.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tweet	Tweet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	tweet	tweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	ccomp	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	advcl	_	_
37	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
45	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
46	very	very	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	58	punct	_	_
54	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nsubj	_	_
56	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
58	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	ccomp	_	_
59	for	for	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	62	amod	_	_
62	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Tweet and tweet | the little bird |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
| 2 | **break** | gerund · passive |  | bird's wings *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **find** | past | bird | wing |  |  |  | difficult *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 4 | **shake** | to-infinitive | wing *not said here* | bird |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
| 5 | **understand** | past | bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **mean** | past · passive |  | the bath |  |  |  | kindly *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **is** *in a quote* | present | You |  |  |  |  | hearted *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **not** **wish** | past · do-support | bird |  |  |  |  | for a second bath | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for bath=Theme |

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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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