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title: The little bird hopped round it and sang, "How beautifully soft the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The little bird hopped round it and sang, "How beautifully soft the grass is, and what a lovely little flower with its golden heart and silver dress is growing here." Who acts: little bird, grass, lovely little flower. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Dai
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 18

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The little bird hopped round it and sang, "How beautifully soft the grass is, and what a lovely little flower with its golden heart and silver dress is growing here."

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**Who acts:** little bird, grass, lovely little flower · **What happens:** hop, sing, be, grow · **To what, where:** little bird · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Daisy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little bird, grass, lovely 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:pg27200:20:18
# text = The little bird hopped round it and sang, "How beautifully soft the grass is, and what a lovely little flower with its golden heart and silver dress is growing here."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	hopped	hop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
8	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	_
33	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop** | participle |  | the little bird *not said here* |  |  |  | round bird | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round it=Trajectory |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the little bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the grass |  |  |  |  | beautifully, soft *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | present · progressive | a lovely little flower with grass's golden heart and silver dress |  |  | here |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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