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title: ‘Yes; there is such a dreadful whistling up above in the air that I… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes; there is such a dreadful whistling up above in the air that I think I am growing alarmed,’ said the youth. Who acts: dreadful, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 65

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‘Yes; there is such a dreadful whistling up above in the air that I think I am growing alarmed,’ said the youth.

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**Who acts:** dreadful, I · **What happens:** be, whistle up, think, grow, alarm, say · **To what, where:** dreadful, air, youth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (dreadful, I), 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:pg540:38:65
# text = ‘Yes; there is such a dreadful whistling up above in the air that I think I am growing alarmed,’ said the youth.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dreadful	dreadful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
9	whistling	whistle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	above	above	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	_
21	alarmed	alarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | such dreadful |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **whistle up** | gerund | such dreadful *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the air; above *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | the air |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **grow** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **alarm** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | such dreadful | the youth |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic |

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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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