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title: Ras!’ but no sparrows flew out, for Little Lasse had no wings, only… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Ras!’ but no sparrows flew out, for Little Lasse had no wings, only two small legs. Who acts: Ras, Little. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 41

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Ras!’ but no sparrows flew out, for Little Lasse had no wings, only two small legs.

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**Who acts:** Ras, Little · **What happens:** fly out, have · **To what, where:** wings

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ras, Little), 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:pg3454:14:41
# text = Ras!’ but no sparrows flew out, for Little Lasse had no wings, only two small legs.
1	Ras	Ras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	Little	Little	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj	_	_
12	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly out** | past | Ras |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Little | no wings |  |  |  | two small legs *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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