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title: ‘The Golden Blackbird is in a little cabin near by,’ said the little… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The Golden Blackbird is in a little cabin near by,’ said the little hare, ‘and you will easily find it. Who acts: Golden Blackbird, little cabin, you. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 34

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‘The Golden Blackbird is in a little cabin near by,’ said the little hare, ‘and you will easily find it.

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**Who acts:** Golden Blackbird, little cabin, you · **What happens:** be, say, find · **To what, where:** little cabin, little hare, cabin · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Golden Blackbird, little cabin, you), 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:pg7277:21:34
# text = ‘The Golden Blackbird is in a little cabin near by,’ said the little hare, ‘and you will easily find it.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cabin	cabin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	near	near	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Golden Blackbird |  |  | a little cabin |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a little cabin | the little hare |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hare=Topic |
| 3 | **find** | future | you | cabin |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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