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title: Oh! what shouts of joy rang through the great city, when the youth c… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh! what shouts of joy rang through the great city, when the youth came riding back with the princess sitting behind him, and dragging the horrible monster by a cord. Who acts: youth, princess. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, with it
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 112

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Oh! what shouts of joy rang through the great city, when the youth came riding back with the princess sitting behind him, and dragging the horrible monster by a cord.

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**Who acts:** youth, princess · **What happens:** shout, ring, come, ride back, sit, drag · **To what, where:** great city, horrible monster · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, princess), 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:pg3282:37:112
# text = Oh! what shouts of joy rang through the great city, when the youth came riding back with the princess sitting behind him, and dragging the horrible monster by a cord.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
7	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **ring** | past |  |  |  | the great city |  | of joy | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through city=Location |
| 3 | **come** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ride back** | gerund | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the princess | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sit** | gerund | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind dragon | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind he=Location |
| 6 | **drag** | gerund | the youth *not said here* | the horrible monster |  |  |  | by a cord | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=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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