--- title: “Hi, up there!” shouted he; “there’s another half wanted down here,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Hi, up there!” shouted he; “there’s another half wanted down here, that’s not enough”; then the din commenced once more, there was a shrieking and a yelling, and then the other half fell down. Who acts: half, that, din, shrieking. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (half, that, din, shrieking), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg503:13:124 # text = “Hi, up there!” shouted he; “there’s another half wanted down here, that’s not enough”; then the din commenced once more, there was a shrieking and a yelling, and then the other half fell down. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Hi hi INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 up up ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 14 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 16 nsubj _ _ 16 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 23 advmod _ _ 23 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ” " PUNCT '' _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 29 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 din din NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 commenced commence VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 30 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 31 advmod _ _ 31 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 shrieking shrieking NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 yelling yelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 42 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 46 advmod _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 46 nsubj _ _ 46 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 47 down down ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | | half | | there | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 2 | **want down** *in a quote* | past | another half | | | here | | down *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | that | | | | | enough *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **commence** | past | the din | | | | then | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **be** | past | a shrieking and a yelling | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **fall down** | past | the other half | | | | then | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/123/) - next →: [sentence 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/125/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)