--- title: Tiny sailed past many towns, and the little birds in the bushes saw… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Tiny sailed past many towns, and the little birds in the bushes saw her, and sang, "What a lovely little creature;" so the leaf swam away with her farther and farther, till it brought her to other lands. Who acts: Tiny, little birds, leaf, reach. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/35/) [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/) / [Little Tiny or Thumbelina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/) / 35 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 35 Tiny sailed past many towns, and the little birds in the bushes saw her, and sang, "What a lovely little creature;" so the leaf swam away with her farther and farther, till it brought her to other lands. **Who acts:** Tiny, little birds, leaf, reach · **What happens:** sail, see, sing, swim away, bring · **To what, where:** many towns, Tiny, other lands 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 (Tiny, little birds, leaf, reach), 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:pg27200:79:35 # text = Tiny sailed past many towns, and the little birds in the bushes saw her, and sang, "What a lovely little creature;" so the leaf swam away with her farther and farther, till it brought her to other lands. 1 Tiny Tiny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sailed sail VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 past past ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 towns town NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 bushes bush NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 18 obj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 28 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 swam swim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 away away ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 31 advmod _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 farther far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 till till SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 42 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sail** | past | Tiny | | | many towns | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past town=Trajectory | | 2 | **see** | past | the little birds in the bushes | Tiny | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Tiny *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location what=Theme | | 4 | **swim away** | past | the leaf | | | | | away, far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bring** | past | reach | Tiny | | other lands | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to land=Destination | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/36/) - ↑ back to [Little Tiny or Thumbelina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/)