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title: The street boys sang ‘Tra-la-la-la-la, and the Emperor sang too some… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The street boys sang ‘Tra-la-la-la-la, and the Emperor sang too sometimes. Who acts: street boys, Emperor. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 133

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The street boys sang ‘Tra-la-la-la-la, and the Emperor sang too sometimes.

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**Who acts:** street boys, Emperor · **What happens:** sing · **To what, where:** Tra

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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 (street boys, Emperor), 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:pg640:48:133
# text = The street boys sang ‘Tra-la-la-la-la, and the Emperor sang too sometimes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Tra	Tra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	6	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	12	flat:foreign	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | the street boys | Tra |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tra=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the Emperor |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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:** «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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