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title: It made little Tiny very sad to see it, she did so love the little b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: It made little Tiny very sad to see it, she did so love the little birds; all the summer they had sung and twittered for her so beautifully. Who acts: daylight, mole. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, with its dependency tree and the
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 87

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It made little Tiny very sad to see it, she did so love the little birds; all the summer they had sung and twittered for her so beautifully.

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**Who acts:** daylight, mole · **What happens:** make, see, love, sing, twitter · **To what, where:** daylight, little birds, summer

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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 (daylight, mole), 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:pg27200:79:87
# text = It made little Tiny very sad to see it, she did so love the little birds; all the summer they had sung and twittered for her so beautifully.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	twittered	twitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | daylight |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | daylight *not said here* | daylight |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **love** | past · do-support | mole | the little birds |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · perfect · passive |  | all summer |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **twitter** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for mole; beautifully *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for she=Recipient |

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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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