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title: The other bird answered, ‘He will have to seek help from the Witch-m… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The other bird answered, ‘He will have to seek help from the Witch-maiden,(3) who will doubtless be able to put him on the right track. Who acts: other bird, Solomon. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 30

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The other bird answered, ‘He will have to seek help from the Witch-maiden,(3) who will doubtless be able to put him on the right track.

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**Who acts:** other bird, Solomon · **What happens:** answer, have, seek, be, put · **To what, where:** help, Solomon, right track · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other bird, Solomon), 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:pg640:5:30
# text = The other bird answered, ‘He will have to seek help from the Witch-maiden,(3) who will doubtless be able to put him on the right track.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	‘	‘	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the other bird |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | future | Solomon |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Solomon *not said here* | help |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | future |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | Solomon |  | the right track |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on track=Destination |

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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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