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title: ‘At these words the great Bird snatched me up, regardless of my crie… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘At these words the great Bird snatched me up, regardless of my cries, and flew off at a terrific pace--’ Who acts: words, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 64

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‘At these words the great Bird snatched me up, regardless of my cries, and flew off at a terrific pace--’

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**Who acts:** words, my · **What happens:** snatch up, fly off, cry · **To what, where:** me

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, my), 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:pg7277:38:64
# text = ‘At these words the great Bird snatched me up, regardless of my cries, and flew off at a terrific pace--’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	regardless	regardless	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	terrific	terrific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **snatch up** | past | this words | me |  |  |  | of my cries | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme of cry=Source |
| 2 | **fly off** | past | this words *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at a terrific pace | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pace=Location |
| 3 | **cry** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication 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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