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title: Thus, in the evening, no one was surprised to hear the wretched shri… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, in the evening, no one was surprised to hear the wretched shrieks and cries of Cassim’s wife and Morgiana, telling everyone that Cassim was dead. Who acts: one. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 63

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Thus, in the evening, no one was surprised to hear the wretched shrieks and cries of Cassim’s wife and Morgiana, telling everyone that Cassim was dead.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** be, hear, tell, shriek · **To what, where:** wretched shrieks, everyone, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg503:34:63
# text = Thus, in the evening, no one was surprised to hear the wretched shrieks and cries of Cassim’s wife and Morgiana, telling everyone that Cassim was dead.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	surprised	surprised	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Morgiana	Morgiana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
26	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	iobj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
28	Cassim	Cassim	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no one |  |  |  | evening | surprised, thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | the wretched shrieks of Cassim's wife and Morgiana and cries |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shriek=Stimulus |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | everyone |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **shriek** |  |  | Cassim's wife and Morgiana |  |  |  |  | nom shriek «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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