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title: But presently she heard voices, and peeping cautiously, she saw by t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But presently she heard voices, and peeping cautiously, she saw by the moonlight the most lovely blue bird in the world, who was talking to the Princess, while she stroked and caressed it fondly. Who acts: Bird, lovely blue bird. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, pa
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 3, sentence 9

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But presently she heard voices, and peeping cautiously, she saw by the moonlight the most lovely blue bird in the world, who was talking to the Princess, while she stroked and caressed it fondly.

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**Who acts:** Bird, lovely blue bird · **What happens:** hear, peep, see, talk, stroke, caress · **To what, where:** voices, world

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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 (Bird, lovely blue bird), 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:pg7277:4:9
# text = But presently she heard voices, and peeping cautiously, she saw by the moonlight the most lovely blue bird in the world, who was talking to the Princess, while she stroked and caressed it fondly.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	advcl	_	_
9	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	acl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	stroked	stroke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	caressed	caress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	fondly	fondly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Bird | voices |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **peep** | gerund | Bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | cautiously *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | Bird |  |  |  |  | by the moonlight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **talk** | past · progressive | the lovely blue bird in the world |  |  |  |  | to the Princess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to princess=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **stroke** | past | Bird |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **caress** | past | Bird *not said here* | world |  |  |  | fondly *property* | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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