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title: But when the sun was near its setting the outlandish bird came flyin… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the sun was near its setting the outlandish bird came flying up to him, and awakened him, saying: Who acts: sun. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 210

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But when the sun was near its setting the outlandish bird came flying up to him, and awakened him, saying:

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** set, come, fly up, awaken, say · **To what, where:** outlandish bird, Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg540:7:210
# text = But when the sun was near its setting the outlandish bird came flying up to him, and awakened him, saying:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	setting	set	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	outlandish	outlandish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · progressive | the sun | the outlandish bird |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient bird=Result |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fly up** | gerund |  |  | Prince |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result |
| 4 | **awaken** | past |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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 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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