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title: And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the r… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang waltzes. Who acts: men, voices, real Nightingale, clockwork bird. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 107

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And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang waltzes.

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**Who acts:** men, voices, real Nightingale, clockwork bird · **What happens:** sing, not blend · **To what, where:** way, waltzes

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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 (men, voices, real Nightingale, clockwork 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:pg640:48:107
# text = And so they sang together, but their voices did not blend, for the real Nightingale sang in her way and the clockwork bird sang waltzes.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	blend	blend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	clockwork	clockwork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	waltzes	waltz	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **blend** | past · do-support | men's voices |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the real Nightingale |  |  | voice's way |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in way=Location |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the clockwork bird | waltzes |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location waltz=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:** «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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