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title: But now no merry song or noise of mirth was heard from it. — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But now no merry song or noise of mirth was heard from it. Who acts: mirth. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 48

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But now no merry song or noise of mirth was heard from it.

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**Who acts:** mirth · **What happens:** hear, noise · **To what, where:** merry song, noise

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mirth), 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:pg5615:15:48
# text = But now no merry song or noise of mirth was heard from it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · passive |  | no merry song or noise of mirth |  | noise |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from it=Source |
| 2 | **noise** |  | mirth |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «event 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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