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title: Here and there he noticed a bird sitting on a branch, with head erec… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Here and there he noticed a bird sitting on a branch, with head erect and swelling throat, but his ear caught nothing. Who acts: fellow, bird, ear. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 65

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Here and there he noticed a bird sitting on a branch, with head erect and swelling throat, but his ear caught nothing.

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**Who acts:** fellow, bird, ear · **What happens:** notice, sit, swell, catch · **To what, where:** bird, branch, throat, nothing

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, bird, ear), 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:pg641:9:65
# text = Here and there he noticed a bird sitting on a branch, with head erect and swelling throat, but his ear caught nothing.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	parataxis	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	conj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	erect	erect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	swelling	swell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	conj	_	_
18	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | fellow | a bird |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | a bird *not said here* |  |  | a branch |  | with head | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location |
| 3 | **swell** | gerund | a bird *not said here* | throat |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient throat=Extent |
| 4 | **catch** | past | fellow's ear | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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