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title: For you must perceive, my chief lord and emperor, that with a real n… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: For you must perceive, my chief lord and emperor, that with a real nightingale we can never tell what is going to be sung, but with this bird everything is settled. Who acts: you, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 91

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For you must perceive, my chief lord and emperor, that with a real nightingale we can never tell what is going to be sung, but with this bird everything is settled.

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**Who acts:** you, we · **What happens:** perceive, not tell, go, sing, settle · **To what, where:** chief lord, everything · **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 (you, we), 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:pg27200:125:91
# text = For you must perceive, my chief lord and emperor, that with a real nightingale we can never tell what is going to be sung, but with this bird everything is settled.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	parataxis	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | must | you | my chief lord and emperor and a real nightingale |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lord=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V» |
| 5 | **settle** | present · passive |  | everything |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |

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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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