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title: So she begged the nightingale to fly to the beechwood, on the penins… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: So she begged the nightingale to fly to the beechwood, on the peninsula of Jutland, where a mound of stone and twigs had been raised to form the grave, and she begged the nightingale to persuade all the other little birds to build their nests round the place, so that evermore should resound over tha
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Marsh King's Daughter, part 6, sentence 51

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So she begged the nightingale to fly to the beechwood, on the peninsula of Jutland, where a mound of stone and twigs had been raised to form the grave, and she begged the nightingale to persuade all the other little birds to build their nests round the place, so that evermore should resound over that grave music and song.

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**Who acts:** nightingale, evermore · **What happens:** beg, fly, raise, form, persuade, build · **To what, where:** nightingale, mound, grave, other little birds, nests, grave music

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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 (nightingale, evermore), 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:pg27200:88:51
# text = So she begged the nightingale to fly to the beechwood, on the peninsula of Jutland, where a mound of stone and twigs had been raised to form the grave, and she begged the nightingale to persuade all the other little birds to build their nests round the place, so that evermore should resound over that grave music and song.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	beechwood	beechwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	twigs	twig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	form	form	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	persuade	persuade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	_
40	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	44	det:predet	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
45	to	to	PART	TO	_	46	mark	_	_
46	build	build	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	acl	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	nests	nest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obj	_	_
49	round	round	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	57	mark	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	53	fixed	_	_
55	evermore	evermore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
56	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	resound	resound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
58	over	over	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	61	det	_	_
60	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	_
61	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	obl	_	_
62	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	63	cc	_	_
63	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | nightingale | the nightingale |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent nightingale=Recipient |
| 2 | **fly** | to-infinitive | nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the beechwood *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to beechwood=Result |
| 3 | **raise** | past · perfect · passive |  | a mound of stone and twigs |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **form** | to-infinitive |  | the grave |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grave=Theme |
| 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | nightingale | the nightingale |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent nightingale=Recipient |
| 6 | **persuade** | to-infinitive | nightingale *not said here* | all other little birds |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient |
| 7 | **build** | to-infinitive | nightingale *not said here* | mound's nests |  |  |  | round the place | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
| 8 | **resound** | should | evermore |  |  | that grave music and song |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over music=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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