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title: ‘Blue Bird, blue as the sky, Fly to me now, there’s nobody nigh,’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Blue Bird, blue as the sky, Fly to me now, there’s nobody nigh,’ Who acts: you. 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 7

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‘Blue Bird, blue as the sky, Fly to me now, there’s nobody nigh,’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** fly · **To what, where:** Blue Bird, me

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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 (you), 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:pg7277:4:7
# text = ‘Blue Bird, blue as the sky, Fly to me now, there’s nobody nigh,’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	Fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | imperative | you *not said here* | Blue Bird | me |  | now |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to i=Result |

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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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