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title: ‘And now we are sitting and shining here!’ said the bit of bottle-gl… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And now we are sitting and shining here!’ said the bit of bottle-glass. Who acts: ‘, bit. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 58

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‘And now we are sitting and shining here!’ said the bit of bottle-glass.

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**Who acts:** ‘, bit · **What happens:** sit, shine, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘, bit), 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:pg640:51:58
# text = ‘And now we are sitting and shining here!’ said the bit of bottle-glass.
1	‘	‘	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | present · progressive | ‘ |  |  |  | now |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund | ‘ *not said here* |  |  | here |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bit of bottle glass |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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