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title: The evening came, and nobody appeared to bring the poor bird a drop… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The evening came, and nobody appeared to bring the poor bird a drop of water; it opened its beautiful wings, and fluttered about in its anguish; a faint and mournful "Tweet, tweet," was all it could utter, then it bent its little head towards the flower, and its heart broke for want and longing. Who
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Daisy, sentence 62

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The evening came, and nobody appeared to bring the poor bird a drop of water; it opened its beautiful wings, and fluttered about in its anguish; a faint and mournful "Tweet, tweet," was all it could utter, then it bent its little head towards the flower, and its heart broke for want and longing.

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**Who acts:** evening, nobody, drop, faint Tweet, heart · **What happens:** come, appear, bring, open, flutter, be · **To what, where:** drop, poor bird, beautiful wings, anguish, little head

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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 (evening, nobody, drop, faint Tweet), 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:pg27200:20:62
# text = The evening came, and nobody appeared to bring the poor bird a drop of water; it opened its beautiful wings, and fluttered about in its anguish; a faint and mournful "Tweet, tweet," was all it could utter, then it bent its little head towards the flower, and its heart broke for want and longing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
7	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fluttered	flutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
32	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	mournful	mournful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Tweet	Tweet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	tweet	tweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
42	all	all	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	advmod	_	_
48	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
50	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
53	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
61	for	for	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
62	want	want	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
63	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
64	longing	longing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **bring** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* | a drop of water | the poor bird |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent bird=Destination drop=Theme |
| 4 | **open** | past | drop | drop's beautiful wings |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
| 5 | **flutter** | past | drop *not said here* |  |  | drop's anguish |  | about *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in anguish=Location |
| 6 | **is** | could · past | a faint Tweet and tweet |  |  |  |  | all, utter *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **bend** | past | drop | drop's little head |  |  | then | towards the flower | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent head=Material |
| 8 | **break** | past | drop's heart |  |  |  |  | for want and longing | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 9 | **anguish** |  | drop |  |  |  |  |  | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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