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title: But the next night the spy slept as soundly as before, so that the B… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But the next night the spy slept as soundly as before, so that the Blue Bird came, and he and the Princess began to think they were perfectly safe, and to make all sorts of plans for being happy as they were before the Queen’s visit. Who acts: spy, Blue Bird, sight. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Bo
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 5

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But the next night the spy slept as soundly as before, so that the Blue Bird came, and he and the Princess began to think they were perfectly safe, and to make all sorts of plans for being happy as they were before the Queen’s visit.

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**Who acts:** spy, Blue Bird, sight · **What happens:** sleep, come, begin, think, be, make · **To what, where:** sorts, plans · **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 (spy, Blue Bird, sight), 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:pg7277:4:5
# text = But the next night the spy slept as soundly as before, so that the Blue Bird came, and he and the Princess began to think they were perfectly safe, and to make all sorts of plans for being happy as they were before the Queen’s visit.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spy	spy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	as	as	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	soundly	soundly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Blue	Blue	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
36	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	det	_	_
37	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	cop	_	_
42	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	obl	_	_
43	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
45	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
46	before	before	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	’s	's	PART	POS	_	48	case	_	_
50	visit	visit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | the spy |  |  |  | night | soundly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Blue Bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | spy |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | spy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | sight |  |  |  |  | perfectly, safe *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | spy *not said here* | all sorts of plans |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product |
| 7 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | sight |  |  |  | before the Queen's visit |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **sort** |  |  | plans |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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