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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 29

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He traveled as far as Holloway, and there sat down on a stone to consider what course he should take; but while he was thus ruminating, Bow bells, of which there were only six, began to ring; and he thought their sounds addressed him in this manner:

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**Who acts:** puss, six, sounds · **What happens:** travel, sit down, consider, take, ruminate, be · **To what, where:** stone, course, Bow bells, puss, manner · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puss, six, sounds), 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:pg503:29:29
# text = He traveled as far as Holloway, and there sat down on a stone to consider what course he should take; but while he was thus ruminating, Bow bells, of which there were only six, began to ring; and he thought their sounds addressed him in this manner:
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	traveled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Holloway	Holloway	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	consider	consider	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
17	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	18	det	_	_
18	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	ruminating	ruminate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
35	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	36	expl	_	_
36	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
37	only	only	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
47	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
49	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	ccomp	_	_
50	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	det	_	_
53	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **travel** | past | puss |  |  |  |  | as Holloway; far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | puss *not said here* |  |  | a stone; there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location |
| 3 | **consider** | to-infinitive | puss *not said here* | what course |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent course=Attribute |
| 4 | **take** | should | puss | what course *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 5 | **ruminate** | past · progressive | puss | Bow bells |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **be** | past | six |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **begin** | past | six *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 8 | **ring** | to-infinitive | six *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **think** *speech: other* | past | puss |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 10 | **address** | past | bells's sounds |  | puss | this manner |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |

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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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