--- title: Then the birds began to twitter, and the forest too was full of gree… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Then the birds began to twitter, and the forest too was full of green young leaves; and out of it came a beautiful horse, which Gerda remembered, for it was one which had drawn the golden coach. Who acts: birds, forest, beautiful horse. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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C. Andersen, Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, forest, beautiful horse), 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:pg27200:176:39 # text = Then the birds began to twitter, and the forest too was full of green young leaves; and out of it came a beautiful horse, which Gerda remembered, for it was one which had drawn the golden coach. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 twitter twitter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 too too ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 16 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 23 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 30 nsubj _ _ 29 Gerda Gerda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 remembered remember VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 35 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 obl _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 ccomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 coach coach NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the birds | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **twitter** | to-infinitive | the birds *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the forest | | | | | of green young leaves; full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **come** | past | the birds *not said here* | a beautiful horse | | forest | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | | 5 | **remember** | past | a beautiful horse | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | forest | | | | | for one | tree rules | | 7 | **draw** | past · perfect · passive | | the golden coach | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary coach=Result | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/40/) - ↑ back to [Of the Palace of the Snow Queen and What Happened There At Last](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/176/)