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title: Then he said again: “Oh! if I only had a third bite of that birdie!” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he said again: “Oh! if I only had a third bite of that birdie!” Who acts: prince. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 55

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Then he said again: “Oh! if I only had a third bite of that birdie!”

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** say, have, bite · **To what, where:** third bite, birdie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg7439:43:55
# text = Then he said again: “Oh! if I only had a third bite of that birdie!”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
15	bite	bite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | prince |  |  |  | then; again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | prince | a third bite of that birdie |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient |
| 3 | **bite** *in a quote* |  |  | that birdie |  |  |  |  | nom bite «state 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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