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title: He heard the children shouting and calling, and from a window that h… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 102

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He heard the children shouting and calling, and from a window that he passed came the twang of the koto, and everything seemed to cry a welcome for his return.

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**Who acts:** thatch, children, everything · **What happens:** hear, shout, call, pass, come, seem · **To what, where:** children, window, twang, welcome, koto · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thatch, children, everything), 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:pg5615:3:102
# text = He heard the children shouting and calling, and from a window that he passed came the twang of the koto, and everything seemed to cry a welcome for his return.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	shouting	shout	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	calling	call	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	twang	twang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	koto	koto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	welcome	welcome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | thatch | the children |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call** | gerund | the children *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pass** | past | thatch | a window *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory |
| 5 | **come** | past | thatch *not said here* | the twang of the koto |  | a window |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location twang=Theme |
| 6 | **seem** | past | everything |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | everything *not said here* | a welcome |  |  |  | for thatch's return | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welcome=Topic |
| 8 | **twang** |  |  | the koto |  |  |  |  | nom twang «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **return** |  | thatch |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=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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