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title: One day he was sitting under a bush playing so sweetly that you migh… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day he was sitting under a bush playing so sweetly that you might easily have mistaken the notes for those of a bird, when an old man passed by. Who acts: man, you, old man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 83

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One day he was sitting under a bush playing so sweetly that you might easily have mistaken the notes for those of a bird, when an old man passed by.

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**Who acts:** man, you, old man · **What happens:** sit, play, mistake, pass by · **To what, where:** bush, notes

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, you, old man), 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:pg2435:10:83
# text = One day he was sitting under a bush playing so sweetly that you might easily have mistaken the notes for those of a bird, when an old man passed by.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	under	under	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux	_	_
17	mistaken	mistake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nmod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | man |  |  | a bush | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bush=Location |
| 2 | **play** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mistake** | might · perfect | you | the notes |  |  |  | for those; easily *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass by** | participle | a old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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