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title: ‘Yes, I did,’ and then suddenly she gave another little scream, whic… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes, I did,’ and then suddenly she gave another little scream, which had quite a different sound from the first. Who acts: dressmaker, little scream. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 53

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‘Yes, I did,’ and then suddenly she gave another little scream, which had quite a different sound from the first.

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**Who acts:** dressmaker, little scream · **What happens:** ', give, have · **To what, where:** little scream, different sound, first

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dressmaker, little scream), 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:pg3454:10:53
# text = ‘Yes, I did,’ and then suddenly she gave another little scream, which had quite a different sound from the first.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
10	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	scream	scream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	quite	quite	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	22	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **'** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | dressmaker | another little scream |  |  | then | suddenly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scream=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | another little scream | quite different sound |  | the first |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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