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title: "The little nightingale, who is singing yonder in the tamarind grove… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "The little nightingale, who is singing yonder in the tamarind grove, will soon be going north, too." Who acts: little nightingale. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 48

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"The little nightingale, who is singing yonder in the tamarind grove, will soon be going north, too."

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**Who acts:** little nightingale · **What happens:** sing, go · **To what, where:** tamarind grove

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little nightingale), 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:pg27200:88:48
# text = "The little nightingale, who is singing yonder in the tamarind grove, will soon be going north, too."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl	_	_
9	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	tamarind	tamarind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
19	north	north	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | present · progressive | the little nightingale |  |  | the tamarind grove |  | yonder *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grove=Location |
| 2 | **go** *in a quote* | future · progressive | the little nightingale |  |  |  |  | north, soon *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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