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title: And furthermore, the Prince had a nightingale, who could sing in suc… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And furthermore, the Prince had a nightingale, who could sing in such a manner that it seemed as though all sweet melodies dwelt in her little throat. Who acts: Prince, nightingale, it, sweet melodies. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree 
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 9

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And furthermore, the Prince had a nightingale, who could sing in such a manner that it seemed as though all sweet melodies dwelt in her little throat.

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**Who acts:** Prince, nightingale, it, sweet melodies · **What happens:** have, sing, seem, dwell · **To what, where:** nightingale, manner, little throat

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, nightingale, it, sweet melodies), 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:pg1597:3:9
# text = And furthermore, the Prince had a nightingale, who could sing in such a manner that it seemed as though all sweet melodies dwelt in her little throat.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	furthermore	furthermore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
23	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	melodies	melody	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Prince | a nightingale |  |  |  | furthermore *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightingale=Patient |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | could | a nightingale |  |  | such manner |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |
| 3 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dwell** | past | all sweet melodies |  |  | name's little throat |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in throat=Location |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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