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title: When they heard the voice coming from the coffin the other people su… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When they heard the voice coming from the coffin the other people suddenly stopped laughing, and stood as if they had been turned into stone. Who acts: sides, voice, other people. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 14

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When they heard the voice coming from the coffin the other people suddenly stopped laughing, and stood as if they had been turned into stone.

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**Who acts:** sides, voice, other people · **What happens:** hear, come, stop, laugh, stand, turn · **To what, where:** voice, coffin, sides, stone

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sides, voice, other people), 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:pg3282:30:14
# text = When they heard the voice coming from the coffin the other people suddenly stopped laughing, and stood as if they had been turned into stone.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	advcl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | sides *= side* | the voice |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | the voice *not said here* |  |  | the coffin |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from coffin=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **stop** | past | the other people | the coffin *not said here* |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund | the other people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **stand** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **turn** | past · perfect · passive |  | sides *= side* |  | stone |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory |

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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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