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title: “Hush!” whispered the fox, “do you see that crowd of armed men comin… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Hush!” whispered the fox, “do you see that crowd of armed men coming towards us? Who acts: fox, you, armed men. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 133

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“Hush!” whispered the fox, “do you see that crowd of armed men coming towards us?

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**Who acts:** fox, you, armed men · **What happens:** whisper, see, come · **To what, where:** crowd · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, you, armed men), 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:pg2435:25:133
# text = “Hush!” whispered the fox, “do you see that crowd of armed men coming towards us?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hush	hush	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: ask* | past | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | that crowd of armed men |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crowd=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | armed men *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards we=Initial\_Location |

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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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