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title: Meanwhile, the birds sang merrily outside, and the sun was shining s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile, the birds sang merrily outside, and the sun was shining so beautifully warm, it seemed as though every little flower said: "God, Thy kindness towards us all is without limits." Who acts: birds, sun, it, little flower. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anderse
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Story, sentence 13

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Meanwhile, the birds sang merrily outside, and the sun was shining so beautifully warm, it seemed as though every little flower said: "God, Thy kindness towards us all is without limits."

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**Who acts:** birds, sun, it, little flower · **What happens:** sing, shine, seem, say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, sun, it, little flower), 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:pg27200:2:13
# text = Meanwhile, the birds sang merrily outside, and the sun was shining so beautifully warm, it seemed as though every little flower said: "God, Thy kindness towards us all is without limits."
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
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	merrily	merrily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	kindness	kindness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	_
32	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nmod	_	_
34	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
36	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	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 | the birds |  |  |  |  | meanwhile, merrily, outside *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **shine** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  | beautifully, warm *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | every little flower |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | without all limits | tree rules |

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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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