--- title: The birds, great and small, flew about in terror and tribulation; th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The birds, great and small, flew about in terror and tribulation; the peewit from the fields, and the crows and daws from the high trees, screamed and screamed; it was just such din as the family will raise to the present day. Who acts: birds, tribulation, family. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/37/) [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/) / [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/) / 37 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 37 The birds, great and small, flew about in terror and tribulation; the peewit from the fields, and the crows and daws from the high trees, screamed and screamed; it was just such din as the family will raise to the present day. **Who acts:** birds, tribulation, family · **What happens:** fly, scream, be, raise · **To what, where:** high trees, such din This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, tribulation, family), 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:pg27200:149:37 # text = The birds, great and small, flew about in terror and tribulation; the peewit from the fields, and the crows and daws from the high trees, screamed and screamed; it was just such din as the family will raise to the present day. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 terror terror NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 tribulation tribulation NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 peewit peewit NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 crows crow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 conj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 daws daw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ _ 26 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 screamed scream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 acl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 screamed scream VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ; ; PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 37 just just ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 38 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 din din NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 40 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 raise raise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 present present ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | the birds | | | | | about terror and tribulation | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about terror=Location | | 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | participle | | the high trees *not said here* | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **scream** *speech: express* | participle | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | tribulation | such din | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **raise** | future | the family | such din *not said here* | | | day | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent din=Theme | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/38/) - ↑ back to [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/)