---
title: Yet in heaven can be heard the song of praise, even from a worm; and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet in heaven can be heard the song of praise, even from a worm; and the notes trembling in the breast of the bird were as audible to Heaven even as the psalms of David before they had fashioned themselves into words and song. Who acts: notes, praise. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian And
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/86/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Girl Who Trod on the Loaf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/) / 86

# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf, sentence 86

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yet in heaven can be heard the song of praise, even from a worm; and the notes trembling in the breast of the bird were as audible to Heaven even as the psalms of David before they had fashioned themselves into words and song.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** notes, praise · **What happens:** hear, tremble, be, have, sing · **To what, where:** song, heaven, breast, words

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (notes, praise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg27200:37:86
# text = Yet in heaven can be heard the song of praise, even from a worm; and the notes trembling in the breast of the bird were as audible to Heaven even as the psalms of David before they had fashioned themselves into words and song.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
20	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	audible	audible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	even	even	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	psalms	psalm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	David	David	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
41	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	xcomp	_	_
42	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obl	_	_
43	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | can · passive |  | the song of praise and a worm |  | heaven |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: song=Stimulus |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | the notes *not said here* |  |  | the breast of the bird |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in breast=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | the notes |  | Heaven |  |  | as the psalms of David; audible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past | notes *= note* |  |  | words and song |  | fashioned *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sing** |  | praise |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/85/)
- next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/87/)
- ↑ back to [The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/37/)