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title: The hangings were all of bats’ wings, and from the ceiling hung twel… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The hangings were all of bats’ wings, and from the ceiling hung twelve cats, who filled the hall with their ear piercing yells. Who acts: hangings, twelve cats, ear piercing. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 85

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The hangings were all of bats’ wings, and from the ceiling hung twelve cats, who filled the hall with their ear piercing yells.

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**Who acts:** hangings, twelve cats, ear piercing · **What happens:** hang, fill, yell · **To what, where:** twelve cats, ceiling, hall

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hangings, twelve cats, ear piercing), 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:pg540:35:85
# text = The hangings were all of bats’ wings, and from the ceiling hung twelve cats, who filled the hall with their ear piercing yells.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hangings	hanging	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	bats	bat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	piercing	piercing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	yells	yell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the hangings | twelve cats |  | the ceiling |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient |
| 2 | **fill** | past | twelve cats | the hall |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hall=Patient |
| 3 | **yell** *speech: express* | present | hall's ear piercing |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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