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title: 'And let the tiniest singing birds in the world sit amongst the flow… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'And let the tiniest singing birds in the world sit amongst the flowers,' rejoined the third. Who acts: you, tiniest singing birds. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 41

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'And let the tiniest singing birds in the world sit amongst the flowers,' rejoined the third.

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**Who acts:** you, tiniest singing birds · **What happens:** let, sing, sit, rejoin · **To what, where:** flowers, third

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, tiniest singing birds), 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:pg3027:12:41
# text = 'And let the tiniest singing birds in the world sit amongst the flowers,' rejoined the third.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
12	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
17	rejoined	rejoin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sit** | present | the tiniest singing birds in the world |  |  | the flowers |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst flower=Location |
| 4 | **rejoin** | past | the tiniest singing birds in the world *not said here* | the third |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Patient |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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