--- title: The poor bird was lamenting its lost liberty, and beating its wings… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The poor bird was lamenting its lost liberty, and beating its wings against the wires; and the little daisy could not speak or utter a consoling word, much as it would have liked to do so. Who acts: poor bird, little daisy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/48/) [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/) / [The Daisy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/) / 48 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 48 The poor bird was lamenting its lost liberty, and beating its wings against the wires; and the little daisy could not speak or utter a consoling word, much as it would have liked to do so. **Who acts:** poor bird, little daisy · **What happens:** lament, lose, beat, not speak, utter, console · **To what, where:** lost liberty, wings, consoling word, much · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (poor bird, little daisy), 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:pg27200:20:48 # text = The poor bird was lamenting its lost liberty, and beating its wings against the wires; and the little daisy could not speak or utter a consoling word, much as it would have liked to do so. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 lamenting lament VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 liberty liberty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 beating beat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 against against ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 wires wire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 daisy daisy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 23 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 24 advmod _ _ 24 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 25 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 utter utter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 consoling console VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 amod _ _ 29 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 appos _ _ 32 as as SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux _ _ 36 liked like VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 advcl _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 so so ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lament** | past · progressive | the poor bird | much's lost liberty | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer liberty=Stimulus | | 2 | **lose** | participle | | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **beat** | gerund | the poor bird *not said here* | much's wings | | | | against the wires | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wing=Instrument against wire=Patient | | 4 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | could | the little daisy | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **utter** *speech: other* | infinitive | the little daisy *not said here* | a consoling word | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | | 6 | **console** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **like** | would · perfect · passive | | much | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/49/) - ↑ back to [The Daisy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/20/)