--- title: Under him was written, "Blue Bird of Paradise," and while the King g… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: Under him was written, "Blue Bird of Paradise," and while the King gazed enchanted at the charming picture the Blue Bird fluttered his wings on the yellow page and spread them and flew out of the book. Who acts: Blue Bird. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/149/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/) / 149 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 149 Under him was written, "Blue Bird of Paradise," and while the King gazed enchanted at the charming picture the Blue Bird fluttered his wings on the yellow page and spread them and flew out of the book. **Who acts:** Blue Bird · **What happens:** write, enchant, flutter, spread, fly out · **To what, where:** Lionel, King, charming picture, wings, yellow page, book This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Blue Bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg23661:1:149 # text = Under him was written, "Blue Bird of Paradise," and while the King gazed enchanted at the charming picture the Blue Bird fluttered his wings on the yellow page and spread them and flew out of the book. 1 Under under ADP IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 Blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 Paradise Paradise PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 14 while while SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 gazed gaze AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 enchanted enchant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 parataxis _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 charming charming NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 picture picture NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 Blue Blue ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 fluttered flutter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 page page NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 38 out out ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 book book NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 26 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **write** | past · passive | | Lionel | | | | Blue Bird of Paradise *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **enchant** | past · passive | | the King | | the charming picture | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **flutter** | past | the Blue Bird | Lionel's wings | | the yellow page | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | | 4 | **spread** | past | the Blue Bird *not said here* | wings *= wing* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | | 5 | **fly out** | past | the Blue Bird *not said here* | the book | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/150/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/1/)