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title: His heart beat fast--he did not know why--and as they both drew near… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His heart beat fast--he did not know why--and as they both drew near the voice of the princess exclaimed, ‘Behold the bird without feathers and the bridge without an arch!’ Who acts: heart, Souci, alas. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, with its depend
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 28

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His heart beat fast--he did not know why--and as they both drew near the voice of the princess exclaimed, ‘Behold the bird without feathers and the bridge without an arch!’

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**Who acts:** heart, Souci, alas · **What happens:** beat, not know, draw, exclaim · **To what, where:** voice

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, Souci, alas), 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:pg5615:31:28
# text = His heart beat fast--he did not know why--and as they both drew near the voice of the princess exclaimed, ‘Behold the bird without feathers and the bridge without an arch!’
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
16	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	near	near	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
29	without	without	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	_
34	without	without	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | Souci's heart |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Souci |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **draw** | past | alas *= ala* |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | alas *= ala* *not said here* |  |  | the voice of the princess |  | without feathers and the bridge; without a arch | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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 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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