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title: ‘And even if you hear cries and sounds, however alarming, you must o… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And even if you hear cries and sounds, however alarming, you must on no account enter,’ said the jogi, walking over to a closet where lay the silken cord that was to strangle the princess. Who acts: you, silken cord. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5,
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 12

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‘And even if you hear cries and sounds, however alarming, you must on no account enter,’ said the jogi, walking over to a closet where lay the silken cord that was to strangle the princess.

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**Who acts:** you, silken cord · **What happens:** hear, say, walk over, lay, be · **To what, where:** cries, jogi, silken cord · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, silken cord), 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:pg3454:5:12
# text = ‘And even if you hear cries and sounds, however alarming, you must on no account enter,’ said the jogi, walking over to a closet where lay the silken cord that was to strangle the princess.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
3	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
7	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	however	however	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	alarming	alarming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	enter	enter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	jogi	jogi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
27	over	over	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	closet	closet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
32	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cord	cord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	strangle	strangle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl:relcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | cries and sounds |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the jogi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk over** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to a closet; over *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lay** | present |  | the silken cord |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Result |
| 5 | **is** | past | the silken cord | the silken cord *not said here* |  |  |  | strangle *property* | tree rules |

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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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