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title: When the people observed that I was quiet they discharged no more ar… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the people observed that I was quiet they discharged no more arrows, but by the noise I heard I knew that their number was increased; and about four yards from me, for more than an hour, there was a knocking, like people at work. Who acts: people, I, four yards. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Bo
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# The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter I, sentence 34

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When the people observed that I was quiet they discharged no more arrows, but by the noise I heard I knew that their number was increased; and about four yards from me, for more than an hour, there was a knocking, like people at work.

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**Who acts:** people, I, four yards · **What happens:** observe, be, discharge, hear, know, increase · **To what, where:** more arrows, noise, number, knocking

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter I. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, I, four yards), 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:pg503:43:34
# text = When the people observed that I was quiet they discharged no more arrows, but by the noise I heard I knew that their number was increased; and about four yards from me, for more than an hour, there was a knocking, like people at work.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	observed	observe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	discharged	discharge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	no	no	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	nsubj	_	_
33	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	40	advmod	_	_
38	than	than	ADP	IN	_	37	fixed	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	43	expl	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	knocking	knocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	like	like	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	appos	_	_
49	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **observe** | past | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **discharge** | past | people | more arrows |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme |
| 4 | **hear** | past | I | the noise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 5 | **know** | past | I |  |  |  |  | by the noise | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **increase** | past · passive |  | strings's number |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 7 | **is a** | past | four yards from me and a hour | a knocking |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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