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title: The youth found the Golden Blackbird standing on a wooden perch, but… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth found the Golden Blackbird standing on a wooden perch, but as stiff and rigid as if he was dead. Who acts: youth, Golden Blackbird. 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 37

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The youth found the Golden Blackbird standing on a wooden perch, but as stiff and rigid as if he was dead.

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**Who acts:** youth, Golden Blackbird · **What happens:** find, stand, be · **To what, where:** Golden Blackbird, wooden perch

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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 (youth, Golden Blackbird), 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:pg7277:21:37
# text = The youth found the Golden Blackbird standing on a wooden perch, but as stiff and rigid as if he was dead.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Blackbird	blackbird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	perch	perch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	rigid	rigid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the youth | the Golden Blackbird |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackbird=Topic |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | the Golden Blackbird *not said here* |  |  | a wooden perch |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on perch=Location |
| 3 | **is** | past | youth |  |  |  |  | dead *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 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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