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title: And the caravan listened well pleased to the song of the nightingale… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the caravan listened well pleased to the song of the nightingale, which seemed to promise good fortune. Who acts: caravan, nightingale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Fourteenth Evening, sentence 16

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And the caravan listened well pleased to the song of the nightingale, which seemed to promise good fortune.

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**Who acts:** caravan, nightingale · **What happens:** listen, seem, promise, sing · **To what, where:** good fortune

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Fourteenth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caravan, nightingale), 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:pg27200:105:16
# text = And the caravan listened well pleased to the song of the nightingale, which seemed to promise good fortune.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	caravan	caravan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | the caravan |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | the nightingale *not said here* | good fortune |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme |
| 4 | **sing** |  | the nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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