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title: "Tweet, tweet," sang the bird, as he flew out into the green woods,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Tweet, tweet," sang the bird, as he flew out into the green woods, and Tiny felt very sad. Who acts: Tweet, Tiny. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 120

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"Tweet, tweet," sang the bird, as he flew out into the green woods, and Tiny felt very sad.

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**Who acts:** Tweet, Tiny · **What happens:** sing, fly out, feel · **To what, where:** bird, green woods

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tweet, Tiny), 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:pg27200:79:120
# text = "Tweet, tweet," sang the bird, as he flew out into the green woods, and Tiny felt very sad.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Tweet	Tweet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	tweet	tweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	Tiny	Tiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Tweet and tweet | the bird |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme |
| 2 | **fly out** | past | Tweet |  |  |  |  | into the green woods *result*; out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Tiny |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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