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title: The Nightingale sang so gloriously that the tears came into the Empe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Nightingale sang so gloriously that the tears came into the Emperor’s eyes and ran down his cheeks. Who acts: Nightingale, tears. 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 83

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The Nightingale sang so gloriously that the tears came into the Emperor’s eyes and ran down his cheeks.

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**Who acts:** Nightingale, tears · **What happens:** sing, come, run down · **To what, where:** eyes, cheeks

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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 (Nightingale, tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg640:3672`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg640:48:83
# text = The Nightingale sang so gloriously that the tears came into the Emperor’s eyes and ran down his cheeks.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gloriously	gloriously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 Nightingale |  |  |  |  | gloriously *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | the tears |  |  | the Emperor's eyes |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into eye=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **run down** | past | the tears *not said here* | Emperor's cheeks |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cheek=Trajectory |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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