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title: Then there was much rejoicing, and the little swallow who sat above… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there was much rejoicing, and the little swallow who sat above them, in his nest, was asked to sing a wedding song, which he did as well as he could; but in his heart he felt sad for he was very fond of Tiny, and would have liked never to part from her again. Who acts: little swallow, rejoicing
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 179

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Then there was much rejoicing, and the little swallow who sat above them, in his nest, was asked to sing a wedding song, which he did as well as he could; but in his heart he felt sad for he was very fond of Tiny, and would have liked never to part from her again.

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**Who acts:** little swallow, rejoicing · **What happens:** sit, ask, sing, do, be, like · **To what, where:** little swallow, wedding song, heart, part

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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 (little swallow, rejoicing), 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:pg27200:79:179
# text = Then there was much rejoicing, and the little swallow who sat above them, in his nest, was asked to sing a wedding song, which he did as well as he could; but in his heart he felt sad for he was very fond of Tiny, and would have liked never to part from her again.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
4	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	obj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
41	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
43	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	_
44	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	very	very	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	advcl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	55	aux	_	_
54	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	aux	_	_
55	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	48	advcl	_	_
56	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	58	advmod	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
59	from	from	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	58	nmod	_	_
61	again	again	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the little swallow |  |  |  |  | above swallow | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above they=Location |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past · passive |  | the little swallow |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the little swallow *not said here* | a wedding song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | rejoicing | a wedding song |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
| 5 | **is** | past | rejoicing |  |  | rejoicing's heart |  | feel, sad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | rejoicing |  |  |  |  | of Tiny; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **like** | would · perfect | rejoicing *not said here* | part |  |  | again | from flower | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=Theme |

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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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