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title: Out of it flew the prettiest little female canary that ever was seen. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Out of it flew the prettiest little female canary that ever was seen. Who acts: hand. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 114

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Out of it flew the prettiest little female canary that ever was seen.

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** fly, see · **To what, where:** prettiest little female canary

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), 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:pg540:40:114
# text = Out of it flew the prettiest little female canary that ever was seen.
1	Out	out	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	canary	canary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	13	advmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | hand | the prettiest little female canary |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location canary=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past · passive |  | the prettiest little female canary |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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