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title: Pii, pii, O flute that I love, Pii, pii, rabbits are but little boys. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Pii, pii, O flute that I love, Pii, pii, rabbits are but little boys. Who acts: I, Pii rabbits. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 85

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Pii, pii, O flute that I love, Pii, pii, rabbits are but little boys.

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**Who acts:** I, Pii rabbits · **What happens:** love, be · **To what, where:** flute, little boys

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Pii rabbits), 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:pg5615:35:85
# text = Pii, pii, O flute that I love, Pii, pii, rabbits are but little boys.
1	Pii	Pii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	pii	pii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	_
6	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Pii	Pii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pii	pii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
15	rabbits	rabbit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | I | flute |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Pii rabbits | little boys |  |  |  |  | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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