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title: Thus, in dancing and singing, and talking over the days when the mai… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, in dancing and singing, and talking over the days when the maiden was a sparrow hopping in and out of her cage, the night passed away, and when the first rays of sun broke through the hedge of bamboo, the old man started up, thanked his hostess for her friendly welcome, and prepared to say far
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 74

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Thus, in dancing and singing, and talking over the days when the maiden was a sparrow hopping in and out of her cage, the night passed away, and when the first rays of sun broke through the hedge of bamboo, the old man started up, thanked his hostess for her friendly welcome, and prepared to say farewell.

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**Who acts:** night, maiden, sparrow, first rays, old man, life · **What happens:** sing, talk, be, hop in, pass away, break · **To what, where:** sparrow, dancing, hedge, hostess, sun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (night, maiden, sparrow, first rays), 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:pg5615:36:74
# text = Thus, in dancing and singing, and talking over the days when the maiden was a sparrow hopping in and out of her cage, the night passed away, and when the first rays of sun broke through the hedge of bamboo, the old man started up, thanked his hostess for her friendly welcome, and prepared to say farewell.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	csubj	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
19	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	away	away	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	36	amod	_	_
36	rays	ray	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
40	through	through	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
50	up	up	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	hostess	hostess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	for	for	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
56	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
57	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	parataxis	_	_
62	to	to	PART	TO	_	63	mark	_	_
63	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	61	xcomp	_	_
64	farewell	farewell	INTJ	UH	_	63	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the night *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | the maiden | a sparrow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hop in** | gerund | a sparrow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass away** | past | the night |  |  | dancing |  | away, thus *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **break** | past | the first rays of sun |  |  | the hedge of bamboo |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through hedge=Location |
| 7 | **start up** | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 8 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the night *not said here* | man's hostess |  |  |  | for life's friendly welcome | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent hostess=Theme for welcome=Attribute |
| 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the night *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **ray** |  |  | sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 11 | **welcome** |  | life |  |  |  |  |  | nom welcome «state 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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