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title: Soon he heard his wife’s harsh voice singing its morning song as she… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon he heard his wife’s harsh voice singing its morning song as she went about her household affairs, scolding her daughter the while. Who acts: Peter, harsh voice, wife, plan. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 36

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Soon he heard his wife’s harsh voice singing its morning song as she went about her household affairs, scolding her daughter the while.

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**Who acts:** Peter, harsh voice, wife, plan · **What happens:** hear, sing, go, scold · **To what, where:** morning song, daughter

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, harsh voice, wife, plan), 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:pg2435:16:36
# text = Soon he heard his wife’s harsh voice singing its morning song as she went about her household affairs, scolding her daughter the while.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	harsh	harsh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
16	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	scolding	scold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | harsh voice *not said here* | plan's morning song |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | about wife's household affairs | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about affair=Location |
| 4 | **scold** | gerund | wife *not said here* | wife's daughter |  |  | while |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** |  | plan |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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:** «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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