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title: So a year passed, and the emperor, the court, and all the other Chin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So a year passed, and the emperor, the court, and all the other Chinese knew every little turn in the artificial bird's song; and for that same reason it pleased them better. Who acts: other Chinese, artificial bird. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Night
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Nightingale, sentence 99

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So a year passed, and the emperor, the court, and all the other Chinese knew every little turn in the artificial bird's song; and for that same reason it pleased them better.

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**Who acts:** other Chinese, artificial bird · **What happens:** pass, know, sing · **To what, where:** emperor, little turn, song

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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 (other Chinese, artificial bird), 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:pg27200:125:99
# text = So a year passed, and the emperor, the court, and all the other Chinese knew every little turn in the artificial bird's song; and for that same reason it pleased them better.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
37	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	35	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | the emperor |  |  | year |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme emperor=Trajectory |
| 2 | **know** | past | the other Chinese | every little turn |  | the artificial bird's song |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer turn=Stimulus |
| 3 | **sing** |  | the artificial bird |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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