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title: You might hear the laughter of the children break and fade and die a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 58

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You might hear the laughter of the children break and fade and die away as deeper and deeper into the lone green wood the stranger went and the children followed.

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**Who acts:** You, children, stranger · **What happens:** hear, break, fade, die away, go, follow · **To what, where:** laughter, lone green wood

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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 (You, children, stranger), 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:pg14241:15:58
# text = You might hear the laughter of the children break and fade and die away as deeper and deeper into the lone green wood the stranger went and the children followed.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	break	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	lone	lone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | might | You | the laughter |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer laughter=Stimulus |
| 2 | **break** | present | the children | the laughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laughter=Patient |
| 3 | **fade** | present | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **die away** | present | You *not said here* |  |  | the lone green wood |  | away, deep *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **go** | past | the stranger | the lone green wood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme |
| 6 | **follow** | past | the children |  |  |  |  |  | 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:** «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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