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title: Suddenly he was awakened by a great clatter about his ears, as if al… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly he was awakened by a great clatter about his ears, as if all the workmen in the world were sawing and hammering and building close to him. Who acts: great clatter, workmen. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 53

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Suddenly he was awakened by a great clatter about his ears, as if all the workmen in the world were sawing and hammering and building close to him.

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**Who acts:** great clatter, workmen · **What happens:** awaken, saw, hammer, build · **To what, where:** husband

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great clatter, workmen), 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:pg3282:20:53
# text = Suddenly he was awakened by a great clatter about his ears, as if all the workmen in the world were sawing and hammering and building close to him.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	clatter	clatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	about	about	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	workmen	workman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	sawing	saw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hammering	hammer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	building	build	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
27	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awaken** | past · passive | a great clatter about husband's ears | husband |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme |
| 2 | **saw** | past · progressive | all workmen in the world |  |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **hammer** | gerund | all workmen in the world *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **build** | gerund | all workmen in the world *not said here* |  | husband |  |  | close *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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