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title: I will hear the nightingale, she must be here this evening; she has… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: I will hear the nightingale, she must be here this evening; she has my highest favor; and if she does not come, the whole court shall be trampled upon after supper is ended." Who acts: I, nightingale, my. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 32

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I will hear the nightingale, she must be here this evening; she has my highest favor; and if she does not come, the whole court shall be trampled upon after supper is ended."

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**Who acts:** I, nightingale, my · **What happens:** hear, be, have, not come, trample, end · **To what, where:** nightingale, highest favor, whole court, supper

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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 (I, nightingale, my), 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:pg27200:125:32
# text = I will hear the nightingale, she must be here this evening; she has my highest favor; and if she does not come, the whole court shall be trampled upon after supper is ended."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	parataxis	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	favor	favor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
30	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
33	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | future | I | the nightingale |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | must | nightingale |  |  |  | evening | here *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | nightingale | my highest favor |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favor=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support | nightingale |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **trample** | shall · passive |  | the whole court |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **end** | present · passive |  | supper |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
| 7 | **favor** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom favor «act transitive»: poss=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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