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title: ‘Bow-wow!’ barked the old yard-dog; he was rather hoarse and couldn’… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Bow-wow!’ barked the old yard-dog; he was rather hoarse and couldn’t bark very well. Who acts: Bow. 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 79

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‘Bow-wow!’ barked the old yard-dog; he was rather hoarse and couldn’t bark very well.

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**Who acts:** Bow · **What happens:** bark, be, not bark · **To what, where:** old yard dog

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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: who acts (Bow), 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:pg5615:5:79
# text = ‘Bow-wow!’ barked the old yard-dog; he was rather hoarse and couldn’t bark very well.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	wow	wow	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	barked	bark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	bark	bark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bark** | past | Bow | the old yard dog |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | Bow |  |  |  |  | hoarse *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **bark** | could | Bow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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