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title: The cries of grief uttered by Martin and Michael sounded through the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The cries of grief uttered by Martin and Michael sounded through the house, but Jack remained by the bedside of his father, still and silent, as if he were dead also. Who acts: cries, Jack, grief. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 103

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The cries of grief uttered by Martin and Michael sounded through the house, but Jack remained by the bedside of his father, still and silent, as if he were dead also.

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**Who acts:** cries, Jack, grief · **What happens:** utter, sound, remain, be, cry · **To what, where:** grief, house

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cries, Jack, grief), 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:pg3027:19:103
# text = The cries of grief uttered by Martin and Michael sounded through the house, but Jack remained by the bedside of his father, still and silent, as if he were dead also.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	uttered	utter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Martin	Martin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
34	also	also	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | participle |  | grief *not said here* |  |  |  | by Martin and Michael | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sound** | past | the cries of grief |  |  | the house |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through house=Location |
| 3 | **remain** | participle | Jack |  |  |  | still | by the bedside of Jack's father | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by bedside=Location |
| 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cry** |  | grief |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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