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title: And then, taking a bagful of jewels, she set out all alone to look f… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And then, taking a bagful of jewels, she set out all alone to look for the Blue Bird, without telling anyone where she was going. Who acts: Queen. 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 48

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And then, taking a bagful of jewels, she set out all alone to look for the Blue Bird, without telling anyone where she was going.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** take, set out, look, tell, go · **To what, where:** bagful, anyone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Queen), 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:pg7277:4:48
# text = And then, taking a bagful of jewels, she set out all alone to look for the Blue Bird, without telling anyone where she was going.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bagful	bagful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
24	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | a bagful of jewels |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bagful=Theme |
| 2 | **set out** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the Blue Bird | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for bird=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Queen *not said here* |  | anyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
| 5 | **go** | past · progressive | Queen |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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