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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 54

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With that he laid his pipe to his lips afresh, but now there came forth no shrill notes, as it were, of scraping and gnawing, and squeaking and scurrying, but the tune was joyous and resonant, full of happy laughter and merry play.

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**Who acts:** townsfolk, note, tune · **What happens:** lay, come, scrape, gnaw, squeak, scurry · **To what, where:** pipe, shrill notes

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (townsfolk, note, tune), 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:pg14241:15:54
# text = With that he laid his pipe to his lips afresh, but now there came forth no shrill notes, as it were, of scraping and gnawing, and squeaking and scurrying, but the tune was joyous and resonant, full of happy laughter and merry play.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	afresh	afresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	fixed	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	scraping	scrape	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	gnawing	gnaw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	squeaking	squeak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	scurrying	scurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
39	joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	resonant	resonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | townsfolk | townsfolk's pipe |  |  |  | with that; to townsfolk's lips; afresh *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Result |
| 2 | **come** | past | townsfolk *not said here* | no shrill notes |  |  | now | forth *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=Theme |
| 3 | **scrape** | past · progressive | note |  |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP.instrument V ADVP»: agent=Instrument |
| 4 | **gnaw** | gerund | note *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **squeak** | gerund | note *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **scurry** | gerund | note *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | the tune |  |  |  |  | joyous *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **be** |  | the tune *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of happy laughter and merry play | tree rules |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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