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title: The magpie listened, hopped awhile from branch to branch, and then d… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The magpie listened, hopped awhile from branch to branch, and then darted away, the princess watching him anxiously as far as she could see. Who acts: magpie, princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 14

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The magpie listened, hopped awhile from branch to branch, and then darted away, the princess watching him anxiously as far as she could see.

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**Who acts:** magpie, princess · **What happens:** listen, hop, dart away, watch, see · **To what, where:** branch, princess, magpie

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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 (magpie, princess), 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:pg3282:32:14
# text = The magpie listened, hopped awhile from branch to branch, and then darted away, the princess watching him anxiously as far as she could see.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	magpie	magpie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	awhile	awhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	darted	dart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	away	away	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	anxiously	anxiously	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | the magpie |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hop** | past | the magpie *not said here* |  |  | branch |  | to branch; awhile *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to branch=Destination |
| 3 | **dart away** | past | the magpie *not said here* | the princess |  |  | then | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **watch** | gerund | the princess *not said here* | magpie |  |  |  | far *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | could | princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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