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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 8

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He spoke loudly, and the Black Gallows Bird heard, and ran out of the loft, dragging the big leather hide after him which the Shifty Lad had sewed to his coat.

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**Who acts:** Hallowe’en, Black Gallows, Shifty Lad · **What happens:** speak, hear, run, drag, sew · **To what, where:** loft, big leather hide · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hallowe’en, Black Gallows, Shifty Lad), 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:pg3454:2:8
# text = He spoke loudly, and the Black Gallows Bird heard, and ran out of the loft, dragging the big leather hide after him which the Shifty Lad had sewed to his coat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	loft	loft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	dragging	drag	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	after	after	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	sewed	sew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Hallowe’en *= hallowe'en* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the Black Gallows |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **run** | past | Hallowe’en *= hallowe'en* *not said here* |  |  | the loft |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out loft=Trajectory |
| 4 | **drag** | gerund | Hallowe’en *= hallowe'en* *not said here* | the big leather hide |  |  | after Hallowe’en *= hallowe'en* |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Theme |
| 5 | **sew** | past · perfect | the Shifty Lad | the big leather hide |  |  |  | to Hallowe’en's coat | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent which=Patient to coat=Co-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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