--- title: "What strange conduct," said the emperor, when her flight had been d… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "What strange conduct," said the emperor, when her flight had been discovered; and all the courtiers blamed her, and said she was a very ungrateful creature. Who acts: strange conduct, courtiers, nightingale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/88/) [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/) / 88 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 88 "What strange conduct," said the emperor, when her flight had been discovered; and all the courtiers blamed her, and said she was a very ungrateful creature. **Who acts:** strange conduct, courtiers, nightingale · **What happens:** conduct, say, discover, blame, be · **To what, where:** emperor, flight, nightingale, ungrateful creature · **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 (strange conduct, courtiers, nightingale), 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:pg27200:125:88 # text = "What strange conduct," said the emperor, when her flight had been discovered; and all the courtiers blamed her, and said she was a very ungrateful creature. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 nsubj _ _ 3 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 conduct conduct NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 emperor emperor NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 15 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 courtiers courtier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 22 blamed blame VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 very very ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 ungrateful ungrateful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **conduct** *in a quote* | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | strange conduct | the emperor | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emperor=Topic | | 3 | **discover** | past · perfect · passive | | nightingale's flight | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | | 4 | **blame** | past | all courtiers | nightingale | | | | | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all courtiers *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is a** | past | nightingale | a ungrateful creature | | | | | tree rules | 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 87](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/87/) - next →: [sentence 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/89/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)