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title: There were more birds in a room farther on, parrots and cockatoos th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There were more birds in a room farther on, parrots and cockatoos that could talk, and they greeted Beauty by name; indeed, she found them so entertaining that she took one or two back to her room, and they talked to her while she was at supper; after which the Beast paid her his usual visit, and as
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Beauty and the Beast, part 2, sentence 103

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There were more birds in a room farther on, parrots and cockatoos that could talk, and they greeted Beauty by name; indeed, she found them so entertaining that she took one or two back to her room, and they talked to her while she was at supper; after which the Beast paid her his usual visit, and asked her the same questions as before, and then with a gruff “good-night” he took his departure, and Beauty went to bed to dream of her mysterious Prince.

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**Who acts:** more birds, parrots, birds, charming, Beast, prince · **What happens:** be, talk, greet, find, entertain, take · **To what, where:** room, Beauty, birds, one, charming, supper

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Beauty and the Beast, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more birds, parrots, birds, charming), 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:pg503:15:103
# text = There were more birds in a room farther on, parrots and cockatoos that could talk, and they greeted Beauty by name; indeed, she found them so entertaining that she took one or two back to her room, and they talked to her while she was at supper; after which the Beast paid her his usual visit, and asked her the same questions as before, and then with a gruff “good-night” he took his departure, and Beauty went to bed to dream of her mysterious Prince.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	parrots	parrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	cockatoos	cockatoo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	talk	talk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	greeted	greet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	entertaining	entertain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	obj	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	conj	_	_
38	back	back	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
39	to	to	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	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obl	_	_
48	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
54	after	after	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	obl	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Beast	Beast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
58	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
59	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	62	nmod:poss	_	_
61	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
64	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
65	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	conj	_	_
66	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	65	iobj	_	_
67	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	69	det	_	_
68	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	69	amod	_	_
69	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	obj	_	_
70	as	as	ADP	IN	_	71	case	_	_
71	before	before	ADV	RB	_	65	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	84	punct	_	_
73	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	84	cc	_	_
74	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	84	advmod	_	_
75	with	with	ADP	IN	_	81	case	_	_
76	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	81	det	_	_
77	gruff	gruff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	81	amod	_	_
78	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	81	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	81	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	79	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
81	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	84	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
82	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	81	punct	_	_
83	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	84	nsubj	_	_
84	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	conj	_	_
85	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	86	nmod:poss	_	_
86	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	84	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
87	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	90	punct	_	_
88	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	90	cc	_	_
89	Beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	90	nsubj	_	_
90	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	84	conj	_	_
91	to	to	ADP	IN	_	92	case	_	_
92	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	90	obl	_	_
93	to	to	ADP	IN	_	94	case	_	_
94	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	90	obl	_	_
95	of	of	ADP	IN	_	98	case	_	_
96	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	98	nmod:poss	_	_
97	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	98	amod	_	_
98	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	94	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
99	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | more birds |  |  | a room; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location |
| 2 | **talk** | could | parrots and cockatoos |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | past | birds *= bird* | Beauty |  |  |  | by name | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | charming | birds *= bird* |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 5 | **entertain** | gerund | charming *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | past | charming | one |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 7 | **talk** | past | parrots *= parrot* |  | charming |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to she=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **is** | past | charming |  |  | supper |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **pay** | past | the Beast | charming's usual visit |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset |
| 10 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Beast *not said here* | the same questions | charming |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **take** | past | prince | prince's departure |  |  | then; night |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent departure=Theme |
| 12 | **go** | past | Beauty |  |  | bed |  | to dream of charming's mysterious Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location to dream=Destination |
| 13 | **visit** |  | charming |  |  |  |  |  | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 14 | **depart** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 15 | **dream** |  |  | charming's mysterious Prince |  |  |  |  | nom dream «cognition transitive»: of=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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