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title: Tiny could, also, sing so softly and sweetly that nothing like her s… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Tiny could, also, sing so softly and sweetly that nothing like her singing had ever before been heard. Who acts: maiden. 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 15

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Tiny could, also, sing so softly and sweetly that nothing like her singing had ever before been heard.

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**Who acts:** maiden · **What happens:** sing, hear · **To what, where:** nothing

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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 (maiden), 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:pg27200:79:15
# text = Tiny could, also, sing so softly and sweetly that nothing like her singing had ever before been heard.
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
12	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | could |  |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | before *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sing** |  | maiden |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: 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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