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title: The Worm was coming closer and closer to the Hall; women were shriek… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Worm was coming closer and closer to the Hall; women were shrieking, men were gathering weapons, dogs were barking and horses neighing with terror. Who acts: Worm, women, men, dogs. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 113

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The Worm was coming closer and closer to the Hall; women were shrieking, men were gathering weapons, dogs were barking and horses neighing with terror.

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**Who acts:** Worm, women, men, dogs, horses · **What happens:** come, shriek, gather, bark, neigh · **To what, where:** weapons

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worm, women, men, dogs), 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:pg14241:32:113
# text = The Worm was coming closer and closer to the Hall; women were shrieking, men were gathering weapons, dogs were barking and horses neighing with terror.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	closer	close	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	shrieking	shriek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
19	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	neighing	neigh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past · progressive | the Worm |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shriek** | past · progressive | women |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **gather** | past · progressive | men | weapons |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 4 | **bark** | past · progressive | dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **neigh** | gerund | horses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with terror | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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