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title: Round its neck hung a piece of ribbon, on which was written "The Emp… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Round its neck hung a piece of ribbon, on which was written "The Emperor of China's nightingale is poor compared with that of the Emperor of Japan's." Who acts: Emperor. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 80

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Round its neck hung a piece of ribbon, on which was written "The Emperor of China's nightingale is poor compared with that of the Emperor of Japan's."

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**Who acts:** Emperor · **What happens:** hang, write, be, compare · **To what, where:** piece

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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 (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:pg27200:125:80
# text = Round its neck hung a piece of ribbon, on which was written "The Emperor of China's nightingale is poor compared with that of the Emperor of Japan's."
1	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ribbon	ribbon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
23	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Japan	Japan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past |  | a piece of ribbon |  |  |  | round gold's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Patient |
| 2 | **write** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Emperor of China's nightingale |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **compare** *in a quote* | participle | the Emperor of China's nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with that; of the Emperor of Japan | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient |

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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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