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title: At this moment the bird suddenly awakened, and, flying on to Saphir’… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At this moment the bird suddenly awakened, and, flying on to Saphir’s shoulder (which it never afterwards left), began fondling him as well as a bird can do. Who acts: bird. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 44

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At this moment the bird suddenly awakened, and, flying on to Saphir’s shoulder (which it never afterwards left), began fondling him as well as a bird can do.

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**Who acts:** bird · **What happens:** awaken, fly on, not leave, begin, fondle, do · **To what, where:** bird, shoulder, hand

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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:pg640:12:44
# text = At this moment the bird suddenly awakened, and, flying on to Saphir’s shoulder (which it never afterwards left), began fondling him as well as a bird can do.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	ccomp	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	fondling	fondle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	34	cc	_	_
29	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	fixed	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | participle · passive |  | the bird |  |  | moment | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **fly on** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to Saphir's shoulder *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Result |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | participle · passive |  | Saphir's shoulder |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **fondle** | gerund |  | hand |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer |
| 6 | **do** | can | a bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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.

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