--- title: "O my warm, blooming fatherland," sang the canary bird, "I will sing… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "O my warm, blooming fatherland," sang the canary bird, "I will sing of thy dark-green trees and thy quiet streams, where the bending branches kiss the clear, smooth water. Who acts: canary bird, bending branches. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/133/) [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 Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/) / 133 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation, sentence 133 "O my warm, blooming fatherland," sang the canary bird, "I will sing of thy dark-green trees and thy quiet streams, where the bending branches kiss the clear, smooth water. **Who acts:** canary bird, bending branches · **What happens:** bloom, sing, kiss · **To what, where:** warm blooming fatherland, clear smooth water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Clerk's Transformation. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (canary bird, bending branches), 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:pg27200:44:133 # text = "O my warm, blooming fatherland," sang the canary bird, "I will sing of thy dark-green trees and thy quiet streams, where the bending branches kiss the clear, smooth water. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 O o INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ _ 3 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 4 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 blooming bloom VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 amod _ _ 7 fatherland fatherland NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 " " PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ _ 10 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 canary canary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 sing sing VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nmod:poss _ _ 21 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 quiet quiet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 bending bending NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 kiss kiss VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 38 smooth smooth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bloom** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the canary bird | my warm blooming fatherland | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | future | the canary bird *= bird* | | | | | of thy green trees and thy quiet streams | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 4 | **kiss** *in a quote* | present | the bending branches | the clear smooth water | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Co-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 132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/132/) - next →: [sentence 134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/134/) - ↑ back to [The Clerk's Transformation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/44/)