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title: Then Aina noticed that a sparrow sitting on the fence was just ready… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Aina noticed that a sparrow sitting on the fence was just ready to pounce on the poor little worm, so she took up the leaf, carried it out into the wood and hid it under a raspberry bush where the greedy sparrow could not find it. Who acts: Aina, sparrow, greedy sparrow. A sentence of «The Lila
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 112

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Then Aina noticed that a sparrow sitting on the fence was just ready to pounce on the poor little worm, so she took up the leaf, carried it out into the wood and hid it under a raspberry bush where the greedy sparrow could not find it.

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**Who acts:** Aina, sparrow, greedy sparrow · **What happens:** notice, sit, be, pounce, take up, carry out · **To what, where:** fence, leaf, wood, raspberry bush

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aina, sparrow, greedy sparrow), 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:pg3454:24:112
# text = Then Aina noticed that a sparrow sitting on the fence was just ready to pounce on the poor little worm, so she took up the leaf, carried it out into the wood and hid it under a raspberry bush where the greedy sparrow could not find it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Aina	Aina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	pounce	pounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	under	under	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	raspberry	raspberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	48	advmod	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
46	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
47	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	48	advmod	_	_
48	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	acl:relcl	_	_
49	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | Aina |  |  |  | then |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | a sparrow *not said here* |  |  | the fence |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fence=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | a sparrow |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pounce** | to-infinitive | a sparrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the poor little worm | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on worm=Trajectory |
| 5 | **take up** | past | Aina | the leaf |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme |
| 6 | **carry out** | past | Aina *not said here* | leaf |  | the wood |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 7 | **hide** | past | Aina *not said here* | leaf |  | a raspberry bush |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under bush=Location |
| 8 | **not** **find** | could | the greedy sparrow | leaf |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |

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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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