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title: ‘“If the urn will not sing,” said she, “outside the door hangs a nig… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘“If the urn will not sing,” said she, “outside the door hangs a nightingale in a cage who will sing.” Who acts: urn, beginning, cage. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 21

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‘“If the urn will not sing,” said she, “outside the door hangs a nightingale in a cage who will sing.”

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**Who acts:** urn, beginning, cage · **What happens:** not sing, say, hang, sing · **To what, where:** nightingale, cage · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (urn, beginning, cage), 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:pg5615:5:21
# text = ‘“If the urn will not sing,” said she, “outside the door hangs a nightingale in a cage who will sing.”
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	urn	urn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
18	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | the urn |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | beginning |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **hang** *in a quote* | present | beginning *not said here* | a nightingale |  | a cage |  | outside the door | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nightingale=Theme outside door=Destination |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* *in a quote* | future | a cage |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |

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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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