--- title: “Yes, beautifully, just listen,” and the fox lifted up his voice and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Yes, beautifully, just listen,” and the fox lifted up his voice and sang weeping: “Lou, lou, lou! the famous spinner, the baker of good cakes, the prudent housekeeper is torn from her husband! Who acts: you, fox, weeping, Lou. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fox, weeping, Lou), 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:pg2435:25:15 # text = “Yes, beautifully, just listen,” and the fox lifted up his voice and sang weeping: “Lou, lou, lou! the famous spinner, the baker of good cakes, the prudent housekeeper is torn from her husband! 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 beautifully beautifully ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 just just ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 weeping weeping NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Lou Lou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 lou Lou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 lou Lou PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ! ! PUNCT . _ 30 punct _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 spinner spinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 baker baker NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 appos _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 prudent prudent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 housekeeper housekeeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 torn tear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl:relcl _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | beautifully *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **lift up** | past | the fox | fox's voice | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | weeping | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tear** *in a quote* | present · passive | Lou and lou and lou *not said here* | the prudent housekeeper | | | | from wife's husband | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from husband=Co-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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/16/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/25/)