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title: Then the two Dreadful Sisters who were left wakened, and rose in the… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the two Dreadful Sisters who were left wakened, and rose in the air like great birds; and though they could not see him because of his Cap of Darkness, they flew after him up the wind, following by the scent through the clouds, like hounds hunting in a wood. Who acts: sisters, hounds. A sentenc
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 88

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Then the two Dreadful Sisters who were left wakened, and rose in the air like great birds; and though they could not see him because of his Cap of Darkness, they flew after him up the wind, following by the scent through the clouds, like hounds hunting in a wood.

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**Who acts:** sisters, hounds · **What happens:** waken, rise, not see, fly up, follow, hunt · **To what, where:** two Dreadful Sisters, air, boy, wind, clouds, wood

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, hounds), 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:pg503:27:88
# text = Then the two Dreadful Sisters who were left wakened, and rose in the air like great birds; and though they could not see him because of his Cap of Darkness, they flew after him up the wind, following by the scent through the clouds, like hounds hunting in a wood.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	Dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	left	left	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	wakened	waken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	30	case	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	Cap	Cap	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Darkness	Darkness	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
36	after	after	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	_
38	up	up	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	scent	scent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	through	through	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	_
52	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	acl	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **waken** | past · passive |  | the two Dreadful Sisters |  |  |  | left *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **rise** | past |  |  |  | the air |  | like great birds | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location |
| 3 | **not** **see** | could | sisters *= sister* | boy |  |  |  | because boy's Cap of Darkness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fly up** | past | sisters *= sister* | the wind |  |  | after boy |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=Theme |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund | sisters *= sister* *not said here* |  |  | the clouds and hounds |  | by the scent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by scent=Location |
| 6 | **hunt** | gerund | hounds *not said here* |  |  | a wood |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |

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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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