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title: ‘This is magnificent!’ they all said, and the man who had brought th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘This is magnificent!’ they all said, and the man who had brought the clockwork bird received on the spot the title of ‘Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.’ Who acts: This, children. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 105

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‘This is magnificent!’ they all said, and the man who had brought the clockwork bird received on the spot the title of ‘Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.’

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**Who acts:** This, children · **What happens:** be, say, bring, receive, title · **To what, where:** man, clockwork bird, spot, Bringer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (This, children), 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:pg640:48:105
# text = ‘This is magnificent!’ they all said, and the man who had brought the clockwork bird received on the spot the title of ‘Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	advmod	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	title	title	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Bringer	bringer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	Imperial	Imperial	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	First	First	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	33	amod	_	_
33	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | magnificent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the man |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination bird=Theme |
| 4 | **receive** | participle |  | the clockwork bird *not said here* |  | the spot  the title of Bringer of the First Nightingale |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on spot=Location |
| 5 | **title** |  |  | Bringer of the First Nightingale |  |  |  |  | nom title «communication 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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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