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title: The keeper of the birds drew the string at the top of the bag, and l… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The keeper of the birds drew the string at the top of the bag, and left it to finish his supper, when in flew an eagle through the open door, and picked the bag up in her claws and carried it through the air to an island. Who acts: keeper. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lil
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 23

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The keeper of the birds drew the string at the top of the bag, and left it to finish his supper, when in flew an eagle through the open door, and picked the bag up in her claws and carried it through the air to an island.

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**Who acts:** keeper · **What happens:** draw, leave, finish, fly, pick up, carry · **To what, where:** string, top, bag, supper, eagle, open door

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (keeper), 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:pg3454:17:23
# text = The keeper of the birds drew the string at the top of the bag, and left it to finish his supper, when in flew an eagle through the open door, and picked the bag up in her claws and carried it through the air to an island.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	keeper	keeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	through	through	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | the keeper of the birds | the string |  | the top of the bag |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the keeper of the birds *not said here* | bag |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **finish** | to-infinitive | the keeper of the birds *not said here* | keeper's supper |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality supper=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fly** | past | the keeper of the birds *not said here* | a eagle |  | the open door |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme through door=Location |
| 5 | **pick up** | past | the keeper of the birds *not said here* | the bag |  | eagle's claws |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Topic |
| 6 | **carry** | past | the keeper of the birds *not said here* | bag |  | the air |  | to a island | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to island=Destination |

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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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