--- title: Ah! the whistle has not lost its power after all,’ and stooping down… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Ah! the whistle has not lost its power after all,’ and stooping down, Toueno whistled more loudly than before, so that the old woman’s feet and hands showed signs of life, and she soon was able to life her head. Who acts: Toueno, feet, woman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Toueno, feet, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:12:56 # text = Ah! the whistle has not lost its power after all,’ and stooping down, Toueno whistled more loudly than before, so that the old woman’s feet and hands showed signs of life, and she soon was able to life her head. 1 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 ! ! PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 stooping stoop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 16 down down ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Toueno Toueno PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 whistled whistle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 20 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 21 advmod _ _ 21 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 before before ADV RB _ 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ _ 34 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 35 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 43 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 ccomp _ _ 44 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **lose** | present · perfect · passive | | the whistle | | | after all | | tree rules | | 2 | **stoop down** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **whistle** | past | Toueno | | | | | loudly *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **show** | past | the old woman's feet and hands | signs of life | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient | | 5 | **is** | past | woman | | | | | to life; able, soon *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **sign** | | | life | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/57/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/)