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title: Round them whistled the cold wind, the wolves howled, and the snow h… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Round them whistled the cold wind, the wolves howled, and the snow hissed; over them flew the black shrieking crows. Who acts: Kay, wolves, snow. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 127

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Round them whistled the cold wind, the wolves howled, and the snow hissed; over them flew the black shrieking crows.

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**Who acts:** Kay, wolves, snow · **What happens:** whistle, howl, hiss, fly · **To what, where:** cold wind, black shrieking crows

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kay, wolves, snow), 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:pg5615:8:127
# text = Round them whistled the cold wind, the wolves howled, and the snow hissed; over them flew the black shrieking crows.
1	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wolves	wolf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hissed	hiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
19	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	shrieking	shrieking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	crows	crow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whistle** | past | Kay | the cold wind |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Topic |
| 2 | **howl** | past | the wolves |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hiss** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fly** | past | the wolves *not said here* | the black shrieking crows |  |  |  | over Kay | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme over they=Location |

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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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