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title: The Blue Bird sang more sweetly than ever, and the Butterfly shone m… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The Blue Bird sang more sweetly than ever, and the Butterfly shone more brightly, as Lionel once more carried _The Book of Beasts_ out into the rose garden, and opened it--very quickly, so that he might not be afraid and change his mind. Who acts: Blue Bird, Butterfly, Lionel. A sentence of «The Boo
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# The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 2, sentence 67

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The Blue Bird sang more sweetly than ever, and the Butterfly shone more brightly, as Lionel once more carried \_The Book of Beasts\_ out into the rose garden, and opened it--very quickly, so that he might not be afraid and change his mind.

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**Who acts:** Blue Bird, Butterfly, Lionel · **What happens:** sing, shine, carry, open, not be, change · **To what, where:** Book, garden, mind

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 2. 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, Butterfly, Lionel), 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:pg23661:2:67
# text = The Blue Bird sang more sweetly than ever, and the Butterfly shone more brightly, as Lionel once more carried _The Book of Beasts_ out into the rose garden, and opened it--very quickly, so that he might not be afraid and change his mind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Butterfly	Butterfly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	brightly	brightly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	Lionel	Lionel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	21	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
21	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Beasts	Beast	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
28	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
29	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	very	very	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	47	mark	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	fixed	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
44	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	47	advmod	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
47	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	advcl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	conj	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	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 Blue Bird |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **shine** | past | the Butterfly |  |  |  |  | brightly *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | past | Lionel | the Book of Beasts |  |  |  | once, out *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme |
| 4 | **open** | past | the Blue Bird *not said here* | garden |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is** | might | Lionel |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **change** | infinitive | Lionel *not said here* | Lionel's mind |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 7 | **mind** |  | Lionel |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 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.

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