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title: But that day when he was out at the hunting, somebody asked him what… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But that day when he was out at the hunting, somebody asked him what noise and moaning was yon they heard all last night in his bedchamber. Who acts: jewelry, somebody, noise. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 71

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But that day when he was out at the hunting, somebody asked him what noise and moaning was yon they heard all last night in his bedchamber.

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**Who acts:** jewelry, somebody, noise · **What happens:** be, ask, hear · **To what, where:** hunting, jewelry, moaning yon, bedchamber

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (jewelry, somebody, noise), 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:pg503:55:71
# text = But that day when he was out at the hunting, somebody asked him what noise and moaning was yon they heard all last night in his bedchamber.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	out	out	ADV	RB	_	3	acl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	13	nsubj	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	iobj	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
16	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	moaning	moaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	bedchamber	bedchamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | jewelry |  |  | the hunting |  | out *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | somebody |  | jewelry |  | day |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | noise and moaning yon *not said here* | moaning yon |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | past | noise and moaning yon |  |  | jewelry's bedchamber | night |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |

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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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