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title: And the Blue Bird, who had never ceased to flutter round within sigh… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Blue Bird, who had never ceased to flutter round within sight and hearing of her prison, came in an instant. Who acts: Blue Bird, prison. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 3

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And the Blue Bird, who had never ceased to flutter round within sight and hearing of her prison, came in an instant.

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**Who acts:** Blue Bird, prison · **What happens:** not cease, flutter, come, hear · **To what, where:** Blue Bird, instant

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (Blue Bird, prison), 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:pg7277:4:3
# text = And the Blue Bird, who had never ceased to flutter round within sight and hearing of her prison, came in an instant.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	flutter	flutter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **cease** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Blue Bird |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flutter** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | within sight and hearing of Bird's prison; round *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Blue Bird |  |  | a instant |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Location |
| 4 | **hear** |  | Bird's prison |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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