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title: As the carriage slowly passed in front of the old house, where cats… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As the carriage slowly passed in front of the old house, where cats from all parts of world seemed to be gathered a song burst from every throat: Who acts: cats. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 83

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As the carriage slowly passed in front of the old house, where cats from all parts of world seemed to be gathered a song burst from every throat:

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**Who acts:** cats · **What happens:** pass, seem, gather · **To what, where:** front, song burst, throat

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cats), 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:pg2435:36:83
# text = As the carriage slowly passed in front of the old house, where cats from all parts of world seemed to be gathered a song burst from every throat:
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
14	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  |  |  | front of the old house |  | as the carriage; slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | past | cats from all parts of world |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **gather** | to-infinitive · passive | cats from all parts of world *not said here* | a song burst |  | every throat |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: burst=Theme from throat=Source |

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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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