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title: The sparrow hopped about as usual, twittering happily, and thinking… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sparrow hopped about as usual, twittering happily, and thinking no evil, and all the while the woman’s brow became blacker and blacker, and at length her fury broke out. Who acts: sparrow, brow, length. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, with its de
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 55

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The sparrow hopped about as usual, twittering happily, and thinking no evil, and all the while the woman’s brow became blacker and blacker, and at length her fury broke out.

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**Who acts:** sparrow, brow, length · **What happens:** hop about, twitter, think, become, break out, infuriate · **To what, where:** evil

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sparrow, brow, length), 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:pg5615:36:55
# text = The sparrow hopped about as usual, twittering happily, and thinking no evil, and all the while the woman’s brow became blacker and blacker, and at length her fury broke out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	twittering	twitter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	evil	evil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
25	blacker	black	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	blacker	black	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
32	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hop about** | past | the sparrow |  |  |  |  | as usual; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **twitter** | gerund | the sparrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | happily *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the sparrow *not said here* | no evil |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot evil=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | the woman's brow |  |  |  |  | black *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **break out** | past | length |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **infuriate** |  | brow |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=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 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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