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title: And the bandmaster praised the bird tremendously; yes, he assured th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 118

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And the bandmaster praised the bird tremendously; yes, he assured them it was better than a real nightingale, not only because of its beautiful plumage and diamonds, but inside as well.

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**Who acts:** bandmaster · **What happens:** praise, assure, be · **To what, where:** bird, people

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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 (bandmaster), 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:pg640:48:118
# text = And the bandmaster praised the bird tremendously; yes, he assured them it was better than a real nightingale, not only because of its beautiful plumage and diamonds, but inside as well.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bandmaster	bandmaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	praised	praise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	tremendously	tremendously	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	assured	assure	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	ccomp	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
23	only	only	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
24	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	28	case	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	33	advmod	_	_
35	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **praise** | past | the bandmaster | the bird |  |  |  | inside, tremendously *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 2 | **assure** | past | bandmaster |  | people |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | past | bandmaster *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than a real nightingale; good *property* | tree rules |

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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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