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description: One day, whilst herding his flock, this shepherd heard a hissing sound, coming out of the forest near by, which he could not account for. Who acts: One day, shepherd. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 7

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One day, whilst herding his flock, this shepherd heard a hissing sound, coming out of the forest near by, which he could not account for.

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**Who acts:** One day, shepherd · **What happens:** herd, hear, hiss, come out · **To what, where:** flock, hissing sound, forest

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, shepherd), 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:pg2435:6:7
# text = One day, whilst herding his flock, this shepherd heard a hissing sound, coming out of the forest near by, which he could not account for.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	herding	herd	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	hissing	hiss	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	near	near	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **herd** | gerund | One day *not said here* | man's flock |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flock=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | past | this shepherd | a hissing sound |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hiss** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come out** | gerund | this shepherd *not said here* | the forest |  |  |  | by account; near *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient forest=Result |

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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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