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title: Oh, such shrieks as the ladies gave! and such running and racing and… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Oh, such shrieks as the ladies gave! and such running and racing and peeping down as there was! but the clerk soon opened the door of the vault, and up came the two princes, their fine clothes covered an inch thick with cobwebs and mould. Who acts: such shrieks, clerk, fine clothes. A sentence of «T
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 67

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Oh, such shrieks as the ladies gave! and such running and racing and peeping down as there was! but the clerk soon opened the door of the vault, and up came the two princes, their fine clothes covered an inch thick with cobwebs and mould.

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**Who acts:** such shrieks, clerk, fine clothes · **What happens:** give, peep down, be, open, come, cover · **To what, where:** such running, door, two princes, inch

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such shrieks, clerk, fine clothes), 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:pg3454:11:67
# text = Oh, such shrieks as the ladies gave! and such running and racing and peeping down as there was! but the clerk soon opened the door of the vault, and up came the two princes, their fine clothes covered an inch thick with cobwebs and mould.
1	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
5	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	running	running	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
17	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	up	up	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	princes	prince	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	38	appos	_	_
43	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	_
44	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	cobwebs	cobweb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	mould	mould	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | such shrieks | such running and racing |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent running=Theme |
| 2 | **peep down** | gerund | such shrieks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | such shrieks *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **open** | past | the clerk | the door of the vault |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | such shrieks *not said here* | the two princes |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prince=Theme |
| 6 | **cover** | participle | vaults's fine clothes *not said here* | a inch |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inch=Destination |

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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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