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title: “Oh, there is really nothing to cry about,” answered the wood-pigeon… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, there is really nothing to cry about,” answered the wood-pigeon soothingly. Who acts: nothing, wood pigeon. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 34

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“Oh, there is really nothing to cry about,” answered the wood-pigeon soothingly.

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**Who acts:** nothing, wood pigeon · **What happens:** be, cry, answer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, wood pigeon), 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:pg2435:21:34
# text = “Oh, there is really nothing to cry about,” answered the wood-pigeon soothingly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	soothingly	soothingly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the wood pigeon |  |  |  |  | soothingly *property* | tree rules |

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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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