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title: “Fool!” said the wife; “that isn’t your pigeon, it’s the morning sun… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Fool!” said the wife; “that isn’t your pigeon, it’s the morning sun glittering on the chimney.” Who acts: wife, that, pigeon, morning sun. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Hansel and Grettel, sentence 56

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“Fool!” said the wife; “that isn’t your pigeon, it’s the morning sun glittering on the chimney.”

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**Who acts:** wife, that, pigeon, morning sun · **What happens:** say, not be, be, glitter · **To what, where:** pigeon, morning sun, chimney · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hansel and Grettel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, that, pigeon, morning 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:pg503:35:56
# text = “Fool!” said the wife; “that isn’t your pigeon, it’s the morning sun glittering on the chimney.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | your pigeon and the morning sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | pigeon | the morning sun |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **glitter** *in a quote* | gerund | the morning sun *not said here* |  |  | the chimney |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on chimney=Location |

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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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