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title: The familiar "lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, your house is on… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The familiar "lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children at home," will occur to English minds. Who acts: familiar lady bird, house. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 10

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The familiar "lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children at home," will occur to English minds.

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**Who acts:** familiar lady bird, house · **What happens:** fly away, be, occur · **To what, where:** home, fire

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (familiar lady bird, house), 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:pg7885:38:10
# text = The familiar "lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children at home," will occur to English minds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	home	home	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	occur	occur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly away** *in a quote* | infinitive | the familiar lady bird and lady bird |  |  | home |  | away, home *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at home=Location |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your house |  |  | fire and your children |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **occur** | future | the familiar lady bird and lady bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to English minds | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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