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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 27

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Still he slept, and she nearly lost hope altogether, But that day, when he was out hunting, somebody asked him what noise and moaning was that they heard all last night in his bedchamber.

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**Who acts:** aye, hill, somebody, noise · **What happens:** sleep, lose, be, ask · **To what, where:** hope, day hunting, aye, bedchamber

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aye, hill, somebody, noise), 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:pg14241:17:27
# text = Still he slept, and she nearly lost hope altogether, But that day, when he was out hunting, somebody asked him what noise and moaning was that they heard all last night in his bedchamber.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
12	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	nsubj	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	32	obj	_	_
26	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	moaning	moaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	35	det	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sleep** | past | aye |  |  |  | still |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lose** | past | hill | hope |  |  |  | altogether, nearly *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | day hunting |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | somebody |  | aye |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | past | noise and moaning |  |  | aye's bedchamber | night | hear *property* | 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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