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title: They all wished her joy, and the swallow sat above in his nest and s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They all wished her joy, and the swallow sat above in his nest and sang the wedding march, and that he did as well as he could; but he was sad, because he was very fond of Thumbelina and did not want to be separated from her. Who acts: presents, swallow, pair, THUMBELINA. A sentence of «The Yellow F
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 248

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They all wished her joy, and the swallow sat above in his nest and sang the wedding march, and that he did as well as he could; but he was sad, because he was very fond of Thumbelina and did not want to be separated from her.

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**Who acts:** presents, swallow, pair, THUMBELINA · **What happens:** wish, sit, sing, do, be, not want · **To what, where:** joy, nest, wedding march

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (presents, swallow, pair, THUMBELINA), 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:pg640:47:248
# text = They all wished her joy, and the swallow sat above in his nest and sang the wedding march, and that he did as well as he could; but he was sad, because he was very fond of Thumbelina and did not want to be separated from her.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	above	above	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	24	advmod	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	fixed	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	very	very	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Thumbelina	Thumbelina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
45	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	46	advmod	_	_
46	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	xcomp	_	_
50	from	from	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past | presents *= present* | THUMBELINA's joy |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot joy=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | the swallow |  |  | pair's nest |  | above *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the swallow *not said here* | the wedding march |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location march=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | pair |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | pair |  |  |  |  | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | pair |  |  |  |  | of Thumbelina; fond *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | presents *= present* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **separate** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | presents *= present* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from THUMBELINA | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: from she=Co-Patient |
| 9 | **joy** |  | THUMBELINA |  |  |  |  |  | nom joy «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 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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