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title: It seemed to me that I heard sounds of bellowing, and I thought I re… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It seemed to me that I heard sounds of bellowing, and I thought I recognised the voice of the golden horned ox; but when I got to the place from which the sounds had come, I could neither see nor hear anything in the hole itself, though there were traces of a fire all round it.” Who acts: It, I, sou
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 12

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It seemed to me that I heard sounds of bellowing, and I thought I recognised the voice of the golden horned ox; but when I got to the place from which the sounds had come, I could neither see nor hear anything in the hole itself, though there were traces of a fire all round it.”

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**Who acts:** It, I, sounds · **What happens:** seem, hear, bellow, think, recognise, get · **To what, where:** me, sounds, voice, place, anything, hole · **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 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, I, sounds), 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:pg2435:27:12
# text = It seemed to me that I heard sounds of bellowing, and I thought I recognised the voice of the golden horned ox; but when I got to the place from which the sounds had come, I could neither see nor hear anything in the hole itself, though there were traces of a fire all round it.”
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bellowing	bellow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	recognised	recognise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	horned	horned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ox	ox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
43	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	44	cc	_	_
44	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
45	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	44	obj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	48	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
52	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	53	expl	_	_
53	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	cop	_	_
54	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nsubj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	_
58	all	all	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
59	round	round	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	42	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | It |  | me |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | I | sounds |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 3 | **bellow** | gerund | sounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **recognise** | past | I | the voice of the golden horned ox |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 6 | **get** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to the place *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result |
| 7 | **come** | past · perfect | the sounds |  |  | the place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **see** | could | I |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **hear** | infinitive | I *not said here* | anything |  | the hole  hole |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 10 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | round hole; all *property* | tree rules |

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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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