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title: But as she mounted the clamour increased sevenfold: high above them… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as she mounted the clamour increased sevenfold: high above them all rang the voices of her three brothers. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 111

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But as she mounted the clamour increased sevenfold: high above them all rang the voices of her three brothers.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** mount, increase, ring · **To what, where:** clamour, sevenfold, voices

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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:pg5615:20:111
# text = But as she mounted the clamour increased sevenfold: high above them all rang the voices of her three brothers.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clamour	clamour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	sevenfold	sevenfold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
10	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
11	above	above	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | girl | the clamour |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clamour=Patient |
| 2 | **increase** | past |  | sevenfold |  |  |  | above brothers *= brother*; high *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer sevenfold=Patient |
| 3 | **ring** | past |  | the voices of girl's three brothers |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme |

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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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