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title: But not a bird was to be seen anywhere, till at length a blue falcon… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But not a bird was to be seen anywhere, till at length a blue falcon flew past him, and raising his bow he took aim at her. Who acts: blue falcon, Falcon. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 29

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But not a bird was to be seen anywhere, till at length a blue falcon flew past him, and raising his bow he took aim at her.

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**Who acts:** blue falcon, Falcon · **What happens:** see, fly, raise, take · **To what, where:** bird, length, bow, aim

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blue falcon, Falcon), 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:pg3027:7:29
# text = But not a bird was to be seen anywhere, till at length a blue falcon flew past him, and raising his bow he took aim at her.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	till	till	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	past	past	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	aim	aim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	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 | **see** | past · passive |  | a bird |  |  | till length | anywhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fly** | past | a blue falcon | length *not said here* |  |  |  | past bird | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent length=Theme past he=Trajectory |
| 3 | **raise** | gerund |  | bird's bow |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | Falcon | aim |  |  |  | at mourning | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent aim=Theme at she=Asset |

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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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