--- title: Tiidu obeyed, at first without much heart; but somehow the tone of t… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Tiidu obeyed, at first without much heart; but somehow the tone of the pipes was sweeter than he had remembered, and as he played, the crowd ceased to walk and chatter, and stood still and silent round him. Who acts: Tiidu, tone, crowd. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crim --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/) / 66 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 66 Tiidu obeyed, at first without much heart; but somehow the tone of the pipes was sweeter than he had remembered, and as he played, the crowd ceased to walk and chatter, and stood still and silent round him. **Who acts:** Tiidu, tone, crowd · **What happens:** obey, be, remember, play, cease, walk · **To what, where:** pipes This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, tone, crowd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:11:66 # text = Tiidu obeyed, at first without much heart; but somehow the tone of the pipes was sweeter than he had remembered, and as he played, the crowd ceased to walk and chatter, and stood still and silent round him. 1 Tiidu Tiidu PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 obeyed obey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 8 obl _ _ 6 without without ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 11 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 tone tone NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 sweeter sweet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 parataxis _ _ 19 than than SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 remembered remember VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 ceased cease VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 chatter chatter VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 conj _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 42 round round ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **obey** | past | Tiidu | | | | | without much heart | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | the tone of the pipes | | | | | sweet *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **remember** | past · perfect | Tiidu | | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **play** | past | Tiidu | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cease** | past | the crowd | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the crowd *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **chatter** | infinitive | the crowd *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **stand** | past | the crowd *not said here* | | | | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **intonate** | | | the pipes | | | | | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/67/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/11/)