--- title: In the middle of the floor lay a dead swallow, his beautiful wings p… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: In the middle of the floor lay a dead swallow, his beautiful wings pulled close to his sides, his feet and his head drawn up under his feathers; the poor bird had evidently died of the cold. Who acts: head, poor bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/86/) [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/) / 86 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 86 In the middle of the floor lay a dead swallow, his beautiful wings pulled close to his sides, his feet and his head drawn up under his feathers; the poor bird had evidently died of the cold. **Who acts:** head, poor bird · **What happens:** lie, pull, draw up, die · **To what, where:** dead swallow, middle, beautiful wings, feathers 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 (head, poor bird), 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:pg27200:79:86 # text = In the middle of the floor lay a dead swallow, his beautiful wings pulled close to his sides, his feet and his head drawn up under his feathers; the poor bird had evidently died of the cold. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 swallow swallow NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 13 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 appos _ _ 15 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 27 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 under under ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 evidently evidently ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 died die VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past | | a dead swallow and neighbor's feet | | the middle of the floor | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swallow=Theme | | 2 | **pull** | participle | | neighbor's beautiful wings *not said here* | | | | close *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **draw up** | participle | neighbor's head | | | neighbor's feathers | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **die** | past · perfect | the poor bird | | | | | of the cold; evidently *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer | 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 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/85/) - next →: [sentence 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/87/) - ↑ back to [Little Tiny or Thumbelina](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/79/)