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title: He was born amidst the shouts and laughter of the boys, and greeted… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was born amidst the shouts and laughter of the boys, and greeted by the jingling bells and cracking whips of the sledges. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 71

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He was born amidst the shouts and laughter of the boys, and greeted by the jingling bells and cracking whips of the sledges.

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**What happens:** bear, shout, greet, crack · **To what, where:** wind, whips

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg5615:5:71
# text = He was born amidst the shouts and laughter of the boys, and greeted by the jingling bells and cracking whips of the sledges.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	amidst	amidst	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	laughter	laughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	greeted	greet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	jingling	jingling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
21	whips	whip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | wind |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **greet** *speech: greet* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by the jingling bells | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **crack** | gerund |  | whips of the sledges |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whip=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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