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title: The boy leapt for joy as he recognised the note of the owl of which… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy leapt for joy as he recognised the note of the owl of which the swallow had spoken, and he said softly in the bird's language: Who acts: boy leapt, leapt. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 81

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The boy leapt for joy as he recognised the note of the owl of which the swallow had spoken, and he said softly in the bird's language:

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**Who acts:** boy leapt, leapt · **What happens:** recognise, speak, say, note · **To what, where:** note, swallow, language, owl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy leapt, leapt), 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:pg3027:33:81
# text = The boy leapt for joy as he recognised the note of the owl of which the swallow had spoken, and he said softly in the bird's language:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	leapt	leapt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recognise** | past | the boy leapt for joy | the note of the owl |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | the swallow |  |  |  | of the owl | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | leapt |  |  | the bird's language |  | softly *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in language=Manner |
| 4 | **note** |  |  | the owl |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: of=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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