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title: Oh! my Princess, birds above Echo back our songs of love, As through… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh! my Princess, birds above Echo back our songs of love, As through this enchanted land Blithe we wander, hand in hand. Who acts: we, love. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 12

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Oh! my Princess, birds above Echo back our songs of love, As through this enchanted land Blithe we wander, hand in hand.

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**Who acts:** we, love · **What happens:** enchant, wander, hand, sing · **To what, where:** enchanted land, hand

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (we, love), 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:pg503:6:12
# text = Oh! my Princess, birds above Echo back our songs of love, As through this enchanted land Blithe we wander, hand in hand.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Echo	Echo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
20	Blithe	Blithe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wander	wander	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wander** | present | we |  |  | this enchanted land |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory |
| 3 | **hand** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  | hand |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **sing** |  | love |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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