--- title: They all said "Oh!" and held up their forefingers and nodded, but a… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They all said "Oh!" and held up their forefingers and nodded, but a poor fisherman, who had heard the real nightingale, said, "it sounds prettily enough, and the melodies are all alike; yet there seems something wanting, I cannot exactly tell what." 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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 (waltzes, poor fisherman, permission, melodies), 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:pg27200:125:95 # text = They all said "Oh!" and held up their forefingers and nodded, but a poor fisherman, who had heard the real nightingale, said, "it sounds prettily enough, and the melodies are all alike; yet there seems something wanting, I cannot exactly tell what." 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 advmod _ _ 3 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 forefingers forefinger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 nodded nod VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 nightingale nightingale NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 28 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 sounds sound VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 33 prettily prettily ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 enough enough ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 melodies melody NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 all all ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 yet yet ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 45 advmod _ _ 45 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 46 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 45 obj _ _ 47 wanting want VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 46 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 49 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 53 nsubj _ _ 50 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 53 advmod _ _ 52 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 53 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 conj _ _ 54 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 53 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | waltzes *= waltz* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent oh=Topic | | 2 | **hold up** | past | waltzes *= waltz* *not said here* | waltzes's forefingers | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot forefinger=Theme | | 3 | **nod** | past | waltzes *= waltz* *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hear** | past · perfect | a poor fisherman | the real nightingale | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nightingale=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a poor fisherman | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **sound** *in a quote* | present | permission | | | | | enough, prettily *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the melodies | | | | | alike, all *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **seem** *in a quote* | present | waltzes *= waltz* *not said here* | something | | there | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Attribute | | 9 | **want** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 10 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | waltzes *= waltz* | | | | | exactly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/96/) - ↑ back to [The Nightingale](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/125/)