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title: “Flutter from tree to tree, chattering bird,” said she, “till you co… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Flutter from tree to tree, chattering bird,” said she, “till you come to Ratibor, my love. Who acts: you, Flutter. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 12

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“Flutter from tree to tree, chattering bird,” said she, “till you come to Ratibor, my love.

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**Who acts:** you, Flutter · **What happens:** chatter, say, come, love · **To what, where:** bird, Ratibor · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Flutter), 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:pg3282:32:12
# text = “Flutter from tree to tree, chattering bird,” said she, “till you come to Ratibor, my love.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Flutter	flutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
9	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Ratibor	Ratibor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chatter** *in a quote* | gerund |  | bird |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  | Ratibor |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ratibor=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **love** *in a quote* |  | Flutter |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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