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title: She sang so beautifully that even the poor fisherman who had so much… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She sang so beautifully that even the poor fisherman who had so much to do stood and listened when he came at night to cast his nets. Who acts: forest, poor fisherman, fisherman. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 9

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She sang so beautifully that even the poor fisherman who had so much to do stood and listened when he came at night to cast his nets.

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**Who acts:** forest, poor fisherman, fisherman · **What happens:** sing, have, do, stand, listen, come · **To what, where:** much, nets

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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 (forest, poor fisherman, fisherman), 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:pg640:48:9
# text = She sang so beautifully that even the poor fisherman who had so much to do stood and listened when he came at night to cast his nets.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	cast	cast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	nets	net	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | forest |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past | the poor fisherman | much |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 3 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stand** | past | the poor fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **listen** | past | the poor fisherman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | past | fisherman |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **cast** | to-infinitive | fisherman *not said here* | fisherman's nets |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Product |

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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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