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title: Then the smith heard in the church a soft music, which grew louder a… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the smith heard in the church a soft music, which grew louder and louder, and soon filled the whole building. Who acts: smith, soft music. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 98

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Then the smith heard in the church a soft music, which grew louder and louder, and soon filled the whole building.

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**Who acts:** smith, soft music · **What happens:** hear, grow, fill · **To what, where:** church, whole building

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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, soft music), 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:pg5615:7:98
# text = Then the smith heard in the church a soft music, which grew louder and louder, and soon filled the whole building.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	smith	smith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | participle | the smith |  |  | the church | then |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grow** | past | a soft music |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fill** | past | the smith *not said here* | the whole building |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent building=Patient |

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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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