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title: But she was very much surprised to hear an odd little voice cry out:… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she was very much surprised to hear an odd little voice cry out: “Oh! Who acts: Queen. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 53

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But she was very much surprised to hear an odd little voice cry out: “Oh!

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** be, hear, cry out · **To what, where:** odd little voice

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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:pg503:22:53
# text = But she was very much surprised to hear an odd little voice cry out: “Oh!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	odd	odd	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
13	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Queen |  |  |  |  | surprised *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* | a odd little voice |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 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.

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