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title: Little Blue Bird, are you really the powerful King Charming?’ said t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Little Blue Bird, are you really the powerful King Charming?’ said the Princess, caressing him. Who acts: Little Blue Bird. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 57

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Little Blue Bird, are you really the powerful King Charming?’ said the Princess, caressing him.

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**Who acts:** Little Blue Bird · **What happens:** be, say, caress · **To what, where:** King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Little Blue 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:pg7277:3:57
# text = Little Blue Bird, are you really the powerful King Charming?’ said the Princess, caressing him.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	ccomp	_	_
7	really	really	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:desc	_	_
11	Charming	Charming	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	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	16	det	_	_
16	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	caressing	caress	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Little Blue Bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **caress** | gerund | Little Blue Bird *not said here* | King |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer |

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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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