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title: Then he heard again the many footsteps as ol’ folk leaving the churc… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he heard again the many footsteps as ol’ folk leaving the church, while the music sounded fainter and fainter, until it altogether died away. Who acts: smith, ol folk, music, church. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 104

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Then he heard again the many footsteps as ol’ folk leaving the church, while the music sounded fainter and fainter, until it altogether died away.

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**Who acts:** smith, ol folk, music, church · **What happens:** hear, leave, sound, die away · **To what, where:** many footsteps, church

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, ol folk, music, church), 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:pg5615:7:104
# text = Then he heard again the many footsteps as ol’ folk leaving the church, while the music sounded fainter and fainter, until it altogether died away.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	ol	ol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sounded	sound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	fainter	faint	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	xcomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fainter	faint	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	away	away	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | smith | the many footsteps |  |  | then; again | as ol folk | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer footstep=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | ol folk *not said here* | the church |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent church=Theme |
| 3 | **sound** | past | the music |  |  |  |  | faint *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **die away** | past | church |  |  |  |  | altogether, away *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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