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title: Three and thirty times did it sing the same tunes without being tire… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Three and thirty times did it sing the same tunes without being tired; the people would gladly have heard it again, but the emperor said the living nightingale ought to sing something. Who acts: taste, people, emperor, living nightingale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 85

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Three and thirty times did it sing the same tunes without being tired; the people would gladly have heard it again, but the emperor said the living nightingale ought to sing something.

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**Who acts:** taste, people, emperor, living nightingale · **What happens:** sing, be, hear, say · **To what, where:** same tunes, taste, something · **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 (taste, people, emperor, living nightingale), 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:pg27200:125:85
# text = Three and thirty times did it sing the same tunes without being tired; the people would gladly have heard it again, but the emperor said the living nightingale ought to sing something.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
4	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
34	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · do-support | taste | the same tunes |  |  | time |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | tired *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | would · perfect | the people | taste |  |  | again | gladly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the emperor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | ought | the living nightingale | something |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme |

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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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