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title: The Yellow Bird — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Yellow Bird A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 38

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The Yellow Bird

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7277:9:38
# text = The Yellow Bird
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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