--- title: "This is very beautiful," exclaimed all who saw it, and he who had b… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "This is very beautiful," exclaimed all who saw it, and he who had brought the artificial bird received the title of "Imperial nightingale-bringer-in-chief." Who acts: This, artificial bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/81/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/) / 81 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 81 "This is very beautiful," exclaimed all who saw it, and he who had brought the artificial bird received the title of "Imperial nightingale-bringer-in-chief." **Who acts:** This, artificial bird · **What happens:** be, exclaim, see, bring, receive, title · **To what, where:** all, piece, emperor, title, Imperial chief · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (This, artificial bird), 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:pg27200:125:81 # text = "This is very beautiful," exclaimed all who saw it, and he who had brought the artificial bird received the title of "Imperial nightingale-bringer-in-chief." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 8 obj _ _ 10 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 artificial artificial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 received receive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 ccomp _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 title title NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 28 nightingale nightingale NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 bringer bringer NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | This | | | | | beautiful *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | | all | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent all=Topic | | 3 | **see** | past | | piece | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 4 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | | emperor | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **receive** | past | the artificial bird | the title of Imperial chief | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Theme | | 6 | **title** | | | Imperial chief | | | | | nom title «communication transitive»: of=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 80](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/80/) - next →: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/82/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)