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title: Al the songs of the east speak of the love of the nightingale for th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Al the songs of the east speak of the love of the nightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night. Who acts: east speak. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave, sentence 1

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Al the songs of the east speak of the love of the nightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night.

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**Who acts:** east speak · **What happens:** sing, love · **To what, where:** nightingale

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Rose From Homer's Grave. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (east speak), 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:pg27200:156:1
# text = Al the songs of the east speak of the love of the nightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night.
1	Al	Al	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	starlight	starlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** |  | the east speak of the love of the nightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 2 | **love** |  |  | the nightingale for the rose in the silent starlight night |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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