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title: I was taking my last plunge, when I heard—sometimes from one side, a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I was taking my last plunge, when I heard—sometimes from one side, and sometimes from another—the sound of a voice singing more sweetly than any nightingale, though I could not catch any words. Who acts: I, voice, my. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 60

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I was taking my last plunge, when I heard—sometimes from one side, and sometimes from another—the sound of a voice singing more sweetly than any nightingale, though I could not catch any words.

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**Who acts:** I, voice, my · **What happens:** take, hear, sing, not catch, plunge · **To what, where:** last plunge, one side, words

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, voice, my), 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:pg3282:10:60
# text = I was taking my last plunge, when I heard—sometimes from one side, and sometimes from another—the sound of a voice singing more sweetly than any nightingale, though I could not catch any words.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	plunge	plunge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	advmod	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	32	det	_	_
32	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
39	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · progressive | I | my last plunge |  |  |  | the sound of a voice *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plunge=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | I |  |  | one side |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from side=Source |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | a voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sweetly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **catch** | could | I | any words |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 5 | **plunge** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom plunge «act transitive»: poss=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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