--- title: The whole city spoke of the wonderful bird, and when two people met,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The whole city spoke of the wonderful bird, and when two people met, one said "nightin," and the other said "gale," and they understood what was meant, for nothing else was talked of. Who acts: whole city, two people, one, other. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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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 (whole city, two people, one, other), 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:pg27200:125:74 # text = The whole city spoke of the wonderful bird, and when two people met, one said "nightin," and the other said "gale," and they understood what was meant, for nothing else was talked of. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 14 mark _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nsubj _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 " " PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 nightin nightin NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 gale gale NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 understood understand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 meant mean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 for for SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 else else ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 talked talk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 conj _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the whole city | | | | | of the wonderful bird | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **meet** | past | two people | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | one | nightin | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nightin=Topic | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the other | gale | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gale=Topic | | 5 | **understand** | past | people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 6 | **mean** | past · passive | | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 7 | **talk** | past · passive | | nothing | | | | | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Patient | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/75/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)