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title: Tiidu played a couple more tunes by way of thanks, then turned to go… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Tiidu played a couple more tunes by way of thanks, then turned to go home, hearing on all sides murmurs of “What a wonderful piper! Who acts: Tiidu. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 68

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Tiidu played a couple more tunes by way of thanks, then turned to go home, hearing on all sides murmurs of “What a wonderful piper!

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**Who acts:** Tiidu · **What happens:** play, turn, go, hear, murmur · **To what, where:** more tunes, murmurs, sides, wonderful piper

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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), 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:pg2435:11:68
# text = Tiidu played a couple more tunes by way of thanks, then turned to go home, hearing on all sides murmurs of “What a wonderful piper!
1	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	thanks	thanks	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	murmurs	murmur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	28	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	piper	piper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past | Tiidu | more tunes  a couple |  |  |  | by way of thanks | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | gerund | Tiidu *not said here* | murmurs of what wonderful piper |  | all sides |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer murmur=Stimulus |
| 5 | **murmur** |  |  | what wonderful piper |  |  |  |  | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «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.

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