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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 98

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An hour or two passed, and everyone was waiting and watching, when at last the sound of trumpets was heard and a grand procession was seen marching up the street.

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**Who acts:** hour, everyone, grand procession · **What happens:** pass, wait, watch, hear, see, march up · **To what, where:** last sound, grand procession, street

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hour, everyone, grand procession), 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:pg3282:23:98
# text = An hour or two passed, and everyone was waiting and watching, when at last the sound of trumpets was heard and a grand procession was seen marching up the street.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
29	marching	march	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	xcomp	_	_
30	up	up	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	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 | a hour |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wait** | past · progressive | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | gerund | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hear** | past · passive |  |  |  | the last sound of trumpets |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 5 | **see** | past · passive |  | a grand procession |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **march up** | gerund | a grand procession *not said here* | the street |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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