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title: But no whistle came, and soon the legs ceased to shake and to kick,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But no whistle came, and soon the legs ceased to shake and to kick, for the Black Gallows Bird was dead, as the Shifty Lad intended he should be. Who acts: whistle, Gallows Bird, Shifty Lad, Lad. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency t
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 83

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But no whistle came, and soon the legs ceased to shake and to kick, for the Black Gallows Bird was dead, as the Shifty Lad intended he should be.

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**Who acts:** whistle, Gallows Bird, Shifty Lad, Lad · **What happens:** come, cease, shake, kick, be, intend · **To what, where:** legs

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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 (whistle, Gallows Bird, Shifty Lad, 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:pg3454:2:83
# text = But no whistle came, and soon the legs ceased to shake and to kick, for the Black Gallows Bird was dead, as the Shifty Lad intended he should be.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	shake	shake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	Black	Black	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	compound	_	_
21	Bird	Bird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Lad	Lad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	intended	intend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | no whistle |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cease** | participle · passive |  | the legs |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **shake** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **kick** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** | past | the Gallows Bird |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **intend** | past | the Shifty Lad |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **be** *not said to happen* | should | Lad |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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