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description: At this moment Turritella appeared, and at the first sight of the savoury pie, with the pretty little birds all singing and chattering, she cried:-- Who acts: Turritella, pretty little birds. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 45

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At this moment Turritella appeared, and at the first sight of the savoury pie, with the pretty little birds all singing and chattering, she cried:--

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**Who acts:** Turritella, pretty little birds · **What happens:** appear, sing, chatter, cry, sight · **To what, where:** first sight, savoury pie

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Turritella, pretty little birds), 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:pg7277:5:45
# text = At this moment Turritella appeared, and at the first sight of the savoury pie, with the pretty little birds all singing and chattering, she cried:--
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	amod	_	_
11	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	savoury	savoury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pie	pie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
22	all	all	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | Turritella |  |  | the first sight of the savoury pie | moment | with the pretty little birds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the pretty little birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chatter** | gerund | the pretty little birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the savoury pie |  |  |  |  | nom sight «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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