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title: In one of these trees lived a nightingale, who sang so beautifully t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In one of these trees lived a nightingale, who sang so beautifully that even the poor fishermen, who had so many other things to do, would stop and listen. Who acts: trees, nightingale, poor fishermen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with it
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 8

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In one of these trees lived a nightingale, who sang so beautifully that even the poor fishermen, who had so many other things to do, would stop and listen.

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**Who acts:** trees, nightingale, poor fishermen · **What happens:** live, sing, have, do, stop, listen · **To what, where:** nightingale, many other things

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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 (trees, nightingale, poor fishermen), 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:pg27200:125:8
# text = In one of these trees lived a nightingale, who sang so beautifully that even the poor fishermen, who had so many other things to do, would stop and listen.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | this trees | a nightingale |  |  |  | in one | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme nightingale=Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | a nightingale |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **have** | past | the poor fishermen | many other things |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the poor fishermen *not said here* | many other things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stop** | would | the poor fishermen |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **listen** | infinitive | the poor fishermen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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