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title: Fortunately for Fiordelisa this was exactly where the Blue Bird had… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Fortunately for Fiordelisa this was exactly where the Blue Bird had perched himself, to keep an eye upon her proceedings, and try to avert danger from his beloved Princess, and now he cried: Who acts: this, Blue Bird, King, Bird. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, pa
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 112

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Fortunately for Fiordelisa this was exactly where the Blue Bird had perched himself, to keep an eye upon her proceedings, and try to avert danger from his beloved Princess, and now he cried:

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**Who acts:** this, Blue Bird, King, Bird · **What happens:** be, perch, keep, try, avert, cry · **To what, where:** King, eye, proceedings, danger

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Blue Bird, King, Bird), 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:pg7277:3:112
# text = Fortunately for Fiordelisa this was exactly where the Blue Bird had perched himself, to keep an eye upon her proceedings, and try to avert danger from his beloved Princess, and now he cried:
1	Fortunately	fortunately	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Fiordelisa	Fiordelisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	1	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	proceedings	proceedings	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	avert	avert	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	beloved	beloved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
35	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | exactly, where *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perch** | past · perfect | the Blue Bird | King |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  | a eye |  | Bird's proceedings |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon proceedings=Location |
| 4 | **try** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **avert** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | danger |  |  |  | from King's beloved Princess | tree rules |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | King |  |  |  | now | fortunately *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **proceed** |  | Bird |  |  |  |  |  | nom proceedings «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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