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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 4

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The sound awoke all the sleeping echoes in the castle, and was repeated now loudly, now softly; now near, and now far.

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**Who acts:** sound, sleeping · **What happens:** awake, echo, repeat · **To what, where:** castle

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, sleeping), 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:pg3282:38:4
# text = The sound awoke all the sleeping echoes in the castle, and was repeated now loudly, now softly; now near, and now far.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	echoes	echo	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	near	near	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awake** | past | the sound |  |  |  |  | far, near *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **echo** | present | all sleeping |  |  | the castle |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location |
| 3 | **repeat** | past · passive | the sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly, softly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V» |

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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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