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title: But by-and-by, his yaller shining hair rose up in the air, and wrapt… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But by-and-by, his yaller shining hair rose up in the air, and wrapt itself round him till he looked for all the world like a great dandelion puff; and it floated away on the wind over the wall and out o' sight, with a parting skirl of wicked voice and sneering laugh. Who acts: shining hair, Tom, ha
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 15

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But by-and-by, his yaller shining hair rose up in the air, and wrapt itself round him till he looked for all the world like a great dandelion puff; and it floated away on the wind over the wall and out o' sight, with a parting skirl of wicked voice and sneering laugh.

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**Who acts:** shining hair, Tom, hair, wicked voice · **What happens:** shine, rise up, wrapt, look, float away, sneer · **To what, where:** air, hair, wind, laugh

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shining hair, Tom, hair, wicked voice), 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:pg14241:18:15
# text = But by-and-by, his yaller shining hair rose up in the air, and wrapt itself round him till he looked for all the world like a great dandelion puff; and it floated away on the wind over the wall and out o' sight, with a parting skirl of wicked voice and sneering laugh.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	yaller	yaller	ADV	FW	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	wrapt	wrapt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
20	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
23	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	dandelion	dandelion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	puff	puff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	floated	float	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
39	away	away	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	over	over	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	out	out	ADV	RB	_	38	conj	_	_
48	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	50	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	_
50	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	skirl	skirl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	sneering	sneer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	58	conj	_	_
61	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | yaller *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise up** | past | Tom's shining hair |  |  | the air |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location |
| 3 | **wrapt** | infinitive | Tom's shining hair *not said here* | hair |  |  |  | round Tom | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  | for all world; like a great dandelion puff | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for world=Theme |
| 5 | **float away** | past | hair |  |  | the wind |  | over the wall; with a parting skirl of wicked voice; away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme on wind=Source over wall=Trajectory |
| 6 | **sneer** | gerund | hair *not said here* | laugh |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme |
| 7 | **skirl** |  | wicked voice |  |  |  |  |  | nom skirl «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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