--- title: "Chirp and twitter, The dew-drops glitter, In the hours of sunny spr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Chirp and twitter, The dew-drops glitter, In the hours of sunny spring, I'll sing my best, Till I go to rest, With my head behind my wing." Who acts: dew drops, little bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dew drops, little 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:pg27200:145:84 # text = "Chirp and twitter, The dew-drops glitter, In the hours of sunny spring, I'll sing my best, Till I go to rest, With my head behind my wing." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Chirp chirp NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 twitter twitter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 glitter glitter VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 In in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 sunny sunny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 Till till SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 parataxis _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 With with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 34 behind behind ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 " " PUNCT '' _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glitter** *in a quote* | present | the dew drops | Chirp and twitter | | | hour | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | future | the little bird *= bird* | my best | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location good=Theme | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | present | the little bird *= bird* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **rest** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the little bird *= bird* *not said here* | my head | | my wing | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme behind wing=Location | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/85/) - ↑ back to [The Portuguese Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/145/)