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title: In a moment she heard Denis whistling gaily, and as her aunt was saf… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment she heard Denis whistling gaily, and as her aunt was safely counting her cabbages, she hurried out to meet him. Who acts: girl, Denis, aunt. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 83

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In a moment she heard Denis whistling gaily, and as her aunt was safely counting her cabbages, she hurried out to meet him.

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**Who acts:** girl, Denis, aunt · **What happens:** hear, whistle, count, hurry out, meet · **To what, where:** Denis, cabbages

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Denis, aunt), 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:pg3454:32:83
# text = In a moment she heard Denis whistling gaily, and as her aunt was safely counting her cabbages, she hurried out to meet him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Denis	Denis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
8	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	counting	count	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	cabbages	cabbage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | girl | Denis |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whistle** | gerund | Denis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | gaily *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **count** | past · progressive | girl's aunt | girl's cabbages |  |  |  | safely *property* | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabbage=Theme |
| 4 | **hurry out** | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **meet** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | Denis |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |

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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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