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title: ‘Perhaps he would revive if I were to put him in that lovely cage,’… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Perhaps he would revive if I were to put him in that lovely cage,’ thought the youth. Who acts: youth, I. 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 39

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‘Perhaps he would revive if I were to put him in that lovely cage,’ thought the youth.

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**Who acts:** youth, I · **What happens:** revive, put, think · **To what, where:** youth, lovely cage · **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 (youth, I), 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:pg7277:21:39
# text = ‘Perhaps he would revive if I were to put him in that lovely cage,’ thought the youth.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	revive	revive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
6	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cage	cage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
18	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revive** | would | youth |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **put** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | I | youth |  | that lovely cage |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in cage=Destination |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent youth=Attribute clause=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 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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