--- title: "There is a very wonderful bird mentioned here, called a nightingale… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "There is a very wonderful bird mentioned here, called a nightingale," said the emperor; "they say it is the best thing in my large kingdom. Who acts: wonderful bird, emperor, lords, bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/22/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/) / 22 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 22 "There is a very wonderful bird mentioned here, called a nightingale," said the emperor; "they say it is the best thing in my large kingdom. **Who acts:** wonderful bird, emperor, lords, bird · **What happens:** be, mention, call, say · **To what, where:** wonderful bird, nightingale, best thing, large kingdom · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (wonderful bird, emperor, lords, bird), 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:pg27200:125:22 # text = "There is a very wonderful bird mentioned here, called a nightingale," said the emperor; "they say it is the best thing in my large kingdom. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 3 expl _ _ 3 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 ccomp _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 5 very very ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 8 mentioned mention VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 nightingale nightingale NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 27 amod _ _ 27 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a wonderful bird | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **mention** *speech: other* *in a quote* | participle | | a wonderful bird *not said here* | | here | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **call** *in a quote* | participle | | a nightingale | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the emperor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | lords *= lord* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | bird | the best thing | | my large kingdom | | | 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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/21/) - next →: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/23/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)