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title: It was very quiet in the forest, and Rasmus could hear the deer and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was very quiet in the forest, and Rasmus could hear the deer and foxes and other animals moving about among the rustling leaves. Who acts: watch, Rasmus, other animals. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 132

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It was very quiet in the forest, and Rasmus could hear the deer and foxes and other animals moving about among the rustling leaves.

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**Who acts:** watch, Rasmus, other animals · **What happens:** be, hear, move about · **To what, where:** forest, deer, rustling leaves

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (watch, Rasmus, other animals), 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:pg2435:29:132
# text = It was very quiet in the forest, and Rasmus could hear the deer and foxes and other animals moving about among the rustling leaves.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deer	deer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
20	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	among	among	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | watch |  |  | the forest |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | could | Rasmus | the deer and foxes and other animals |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **move about** | gerund | other animals *not said here* |  |  | the rustling leaves |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme among leaf=Trajectory |

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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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