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title: By and by the coming of dawn loosened the tongues of all the birds,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By and by the coming of dawn loosened the tongues of all the birds, and, had the Prince only known what they were saying, or the maiden been listening, they might have been spared much sorrow, but they were thinking only of each other, and when they came out of the forest the sun was high in the hea
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 43

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By and by the coming of dawn loosened the tongues of all the birds, and, had the Prince only known what they were saying, or the maiden been listening, they might have been spared much sorrow, but they were thinking only of each other, and when they came out of the forest the sun was high in the heavens.

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**Who acts:** tongues, sun · **What happens:** come, loosen, have, know, say, listen · **To what, where:** tongues, Prince, forest, heavens · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tongues, sun), 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:pg503:26:43
# text = By and by the coming of dawn loosened the tongues of all the birds, and, had the Prince only known what they were saying, or the maiden been listening, they might have been spared much sorrow, but they were thinking only of each other, and when they came out of the forest the sun was high in the heavens.
1	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	loosened	loosen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	only	only	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	32	aux	_	_
32	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
36	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	aux	_	_
37	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	advcl	_	_
39	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
46	only	only	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	45	obl	_	_
49	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
52	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	54	advmod	_	_
53	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
55	out	out	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
62	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	acl:relcl	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **loosen** | past |  | the tongues of all birds |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past |  | the Prince |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Patient |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | tongues *= tongue* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 6 | **listen** | participle · progressive | tongues *= tongue* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **spare** | might · perfect · passive |  | tongues *= tongue* |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient sorrow=Asset |
| 8 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | tongues *= tongue* |  |  |  |  | of each | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **come out** | past | tongues *= tongue* | the forest |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient forest=Result |
| 10 | **is** | past | the sun | the forest *not said here* |  | the heavens |  | high *property* | tree rules |

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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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