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title: ‘For see, my Lords and Ladies and your Imperial Majesty, with the re… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘For see, my Lords and Ladies and your Imperial Majesty, with the real Nightingale one can never tell what will come out, but all is known about the artificial bird! Who acts: Lords. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 119

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‘For see, my Lords and Ladies and your Imperial Majesty, with the real Nightingale one can never tell what will come out, but all is known about the artificial bird!

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**Who acts:** Lords · **What happens:** not tell, come out, know · **To what, where:** all · **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 (Lords), 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:pg640:48:119
# text = ‘For see, my Lords and Ladies and your Imperial Majesty, with the real Nightingale one can never tell what will come out, but all is known about the artificial bird!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	see	see	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Imperial	imperial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Majesty	Majesty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	ccomp	_	_
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | my Lords and Ladies and your Imperial Majesty and the real Nightingale one |  |  |  |  | for see | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **come out** | future |  |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **know** | present · passive |  | all |  |  |  | about the artificial bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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