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title: The little singing-bird flies all around, to the poor fisherman’s hu… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The little singing-bird flies all around, to the poor fisherman’s hut, to the farmer’s cottage, to all those who are far away from you and your Court. Who acts: little singing bird. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 187

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The little singing-bird flies all around, to the poor fisherman’s hut, to the farmer’s cottage, to all those who are far away from you and your Court.

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**Who acts:** little singing bird · **What happens:** fly, be · **To what, where:** hut

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little singing 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:pg640:48:187
# text = The little singing-bird flies all around, to the poor fisherman’s hut, to the farmer’s cottage, to all those who are far away from you and your Court.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	flies	fly	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
25	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
29	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	Court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | present | the little singing bird |  |  | the poor fisherman's hut |  | around *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hut=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | from you; away, far *property* | tree rules |

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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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