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title: but the sound of the milk trickling into the pail prevented his voic… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics
description: but the sound of the milk trickling into the pail prevented his voice being heard. Who acts: milk, sound. A sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Travels of Tom Thumb, sentence 49

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but the sound of the milk trickling into the pail prevented his voice being heard.

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**Who acts:** milk, sound · **What happens:** trickle, prevent, hear · **To what, where:** pail, voice

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This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Travels of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (milk, sound), 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:pg11027:22:49
# text = but the sound of the milk trickling into the pail prevented his voice being heard.
1	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	trickling	trickle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pail	pail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	prevented	prevent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trickle** | gerund | the milk *not said here* |  |  | the pail |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pail=Location |
| 2 | **prevent** | past | the sound of the milk | sound's voice |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer voice=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund · passive | the sound of the milk *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |

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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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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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