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title: The cock flew round the room like a mad thing, and crowed till their… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 113

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The cock flew round the room like a mad thing, and crowed till their heads nearly split with the noise; but no gold or diamonds dropped on the brick floor—not the tiniest grain of either.

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**Who acts:** cock · **What happens:** fly, crow, split, drop · **To what, where:** room, diamonds, brick floor

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock), 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:pg3282:9:113
# text = The cock flew round the room like a mad thing, and crowed till their heads nearly split with the noise; but no gold or diamonds dropped on the brick floor—not the tiniest grain of either.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	crowed	crow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	split	split	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
26	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	brick	brick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	amod	_	_
37	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	either	either	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the cock |  |  | the room |  | like a mad thing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round room=Trajectory |
| 2 | **crow** | past | the cock *not said here* |  |  |  | till things's heads |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **split** | present | the cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the noise; nearly *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with noise=Instrument |
| 4 | **drop** | participle |  | diamonds *not said here* |  | the brick floor |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on floor=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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