--- title: ‘The birds,’ he said, ‘continue flying until they reach a field of c… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘The birds,’ he said, ‘continue flying until they reach a field of corn, and the bees do not stop unless they find the honey-giving flowers, and why should a man have less sense than they? Who acts: birds, bees, man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/87/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/) / 87 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 87 ‘The birds,’ he said, ‘continue flying until they reach a field of corn, and the bees do not stop unless they find the honey-giving flowers, and why should a man have less sense than they? **Who acts:** birds, bees, man · **What happens:** say, continue, fly, reach, not stop, find · **To what, where:** field, giving flowers, less sense · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, bees, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:33:87 # text = ‘The birds,’ he said, ‘continue flying until they reach a field of corn, and the bees do not stop unless they find the honey-giving flowers, and why should a man have less sense than they? 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 continue continue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 11 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 10 xcomp _ _ 12 until until SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 reach reach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 23 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 26 unless unless SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 giving give VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ _ 33 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 36 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 37 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 41 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 42 amod _ _ 42 sense sense NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 than than ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the birds | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **continue** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **fly** | gerund | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **reach** | present | birds *= bird* | a field of corn | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent field=Theme | | 5 | **not** **stop** | present · do-support | the bees | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | bees *= bee* | the giving flowers | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic | | 7 | **give** | gerund | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **have** | should | a man | less sense | | | | than bees *= bee* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sense=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/88/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/33/)