--- title: In a little while the bird flew into the room, still with his eyes f… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: In a little while the bird flew into the room, still with his eyes fixed on the King, and at every glance the strength of the sick man became greater, till he was once more as well as he used to be before the Queen died. Who acts: bird, strength, Queen. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, strength, Queen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg640:11:44 # text = In a little while the bird flew into the room, still with his eyes fixed on the King, and at every glance the strength of the sick man became greater, till he was once more as well as he used to be before the Queen died. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 4 while while SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 still still ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 16 fixed fix VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 22 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 24 det _ _ 24 glance glance NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 sick sick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 31 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 32 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 34 till till SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 37 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 38 advmod _ _ 38 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ _ 39 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 43 advmod _ _ 40 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 39 fixed _ _ 41 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 used use VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 45 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 49 cop _ _ 46 before before SCONJ IN _ 49 mark _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 49 died die VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fly** | past | the bird | | | a little | | into the room; with bird's eyes | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in little=Location | | 2 | **fix** | participle | | bird's eyes *not said here* | | | | on the King | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **become** | past | the strength of the sick man | | | every glance | | great *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **is** | past | strength | | | | | use *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Queen | | | | | die *property* | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/45/) - ↑ back to [The Donkey Cabbage, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/11/)