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title: 'Nought save this,' he answered, handing her the feather of the blue… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Nought save this,' he answered, handing her the feather of the blue falcon, which she held by the tip and gazed at silently. Who acts: Nought, Falcon, blue 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 33

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'Nought save this,' he answered, handing her the feather of the blue falcon, which she held by the tip and gazed at silently.

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**Who acts:** Nought, Falcon, blue falcon · **What happens:** save, answer, hand, hold, gaze · **To what, where:** this, feather, stepmother

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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 (Nought, Falcon, blue 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:pg3027:7:33
# text = 'Nought save this,' he answered, handing her the feather of the blue falcon, which she held by the tip and gazed at silently.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
3	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	handing	hand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tip	tip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | infinitive | Nought | this |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Falcon |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hand** | gerund | Falcon *not said here* | the feather of the blue falcon | stepmother |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination feather=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | past | the blue falcon |  |  |  |  | by the tip | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tip=Location |
| 5 | **gaze** | past | the blue falcon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at silently=Theme |

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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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