--- title: Travellers from every country in the world came to the city of the e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Travellers from every country in the world came to the city of the emperor, which they admired very much, as well as the palace and gardens; but when they heard the nightingale, they all declared it to be the best of all. Who acts: Travellers, emperor. 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C. Andersen, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Travellers, emperor), 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:pg27200:125:12 # text = Travellers from every country in the world came to the city of the emperor, which they admired very much, as well as the palace and gardens; but when they heard the nightingale, they all declared it to be the best of all. 1 Travellers traveller NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 2 from from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 4 det _ _ 4 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 admired admire VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 very very ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 much much ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 26 cc _ _ 23 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 fixed _ _ 24 as as ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 33 advmod _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 nightingale nightingale NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 37 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 det _ _ 39 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 44 cop _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 advcl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | Travellers from every country in the world | | | the city of the emperor | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **admire** | past | the emperor | the palace and gardens | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **hear** | past | Travellers *= traveller* | the nightingale | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus | | 4 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Travellers *= traveller* | garden | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | Travellers *= traveller* *not said here* | | | | | of all; good *property* | tree rules | 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 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/13/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)