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title: "Little nightingale," cried the girl, raising her voice, "our most g… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "Little nightingale," cried the girl, raising her voice, "our most gracious emperor wishes you to sing before him." Who acts: Little nightingale, gracious emperor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 50

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"Little nightingale," cried the girl, raising her voice, "our most gracious emperor wishes you to sing before him."

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**Who acts:** Little nightingale, gracious emperor · **What happens:** cry, raise, wish, sing · **To what, where:** girl, voice, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Little nightingale, gracious emperor), 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:pg27200:125:50
# text = "Little nightingale," cried the girl, raising her voice, "our most gracious emperor wishes you to sing before him."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	gracious	gracious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	wishes	wish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Little nightingale | the girl |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | Little nightingale *not said here* | girl's voice |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | our gracious emperor | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | our gracious emperor *not said here* |  |  |  | before emperor |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=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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