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title: The stork flew away and soon returned carrying in his beak a baby wr… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The stork flew away and soon returned carrying in his beak a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid it down near a lute. Who acts: stork. 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 73

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The stork flew away and soon returned carrying in his beak a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid it down near a lute.

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**Who acts:** stork · **What happens:** fly away, return, carry, wrap, swaddle, lay down · **To what, where:** beak, baby, clothes, lute

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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 (stork), 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:pg2435:21:73
# text = The stork flew away and soon returned carrying in his beak a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes, and laid it down near a lute.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	swaddling	swaddle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lute	lute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly away** | past | the stork |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | the stork *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | the stork *not said here* |  |  | stork's beak and a baby |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in beak=Location |
| 4 | **wrap** | participle |  | a baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **swaddle** | gerund |  | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clothes=Destination |
| 6 | **lay down** | past | the stork *not said here* | baby |  | a lute |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme near lute=Destination |

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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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