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title: And those who could write poetry composed beautiful verses about the… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And those who could write poetry composed beautiful verses about the nightingale, who lived in a forest near the deep sea. Who acts: poetry, nightingale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 14

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And those who could write poetry composed beautiful verses about the nightingale, who lived in a forest near the deep sea.

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**Who acts:** poetry, nightingale · **What happens:** write, compose, live · **To what, where:** beautiful verses, forest

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (poetry, 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:pg27200:125:14
# text = And those who could write poetry composed beautiful verses about the nightingale, who lived in a forest near the deep sea.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	composed	compose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	about	about	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	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **write** | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **compose** | past | that poetry | beautiful verses |  |  |  | about the nightingale | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=Result |
| 3 | **live** | past | the nightingale |  |  | a forest |  | near the deep sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=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:** «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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