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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 14

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Presently they heard a great outcry within and the jogi’s voice crying aloud for help; but they dared not enter, for had they not been told that whatever the noise, they must not come in?

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**Who acts:** pupils, voice · **What happens:** hear, cry, enter, not tell, not come in · **To what, where:** great outcry, pupils, whatever · **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 (pupils, voice), 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:pg3454:5:14
# text = Presently they heard a great outcry within and the jogi’s voice crying aloud for help; but they dared not enter, for had they not been told that whatever the noise, they must not come in?
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	outcry	outcry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	jogi	jogi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
22	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	iobj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
36	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | pupils *= pupil* | a great outcry |  |  |  | within the jogi's voice; presently *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer outcry=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the jogi's voice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for help; aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
| 3 | **enter** | past | pupils *= pupil* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | pupils *= pupil* | whatever |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient whatever=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **come in** | must | pupils *= pupil* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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