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title: Then the whole forest rang with such a blowing of horns, baying of d… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the whole forest rang with such a blowing of horns, baying of dogs, and joyful cries of huntsmen, that the little Roe heard it and longed to join in too. Who acts: whole forest, little Roe, huntsmen. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree
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# The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 42

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Then the whole forest rang with such a blowing of horns, baying of dogs, and joyful cries of huntsmen, that the little Roe heard it and longed to join in too.

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**Who acts:** whole forest, little Roe, huntsmen · **What happens:** ring, bay, hear, long, join in, blow · **To what, where:** joyful cries, forest, horns

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole forest, little Roe, huntsmen), 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:pg540:10:42
# text = Then the whole forest rang with such a blowing of horns, baying of dogs, and joyful cries of huntsmen, that the little Roe heard it and longed to join in too.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	blowing	blowing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	baying	bay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	joyful	joyful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Roe	Roe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	too	too	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring** | past | the whole forest | joyful cries of huntsmen |  |  | then | with such blowing of horns | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with blowing=Theme |
| 2 | **bay** | gerund | the whole forest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of dogs | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past | the little Roe | forest |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **long** | past | the little Roe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **join in** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the little Roe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **blow** |  |  | horns |  |  |  |  | nom blowing «process transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **cry** |  | huntsmen |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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