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title: Soon she heard a rushing sound, and a big wave rose suddenly and swe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 14

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Soon she heard a rushing sound, and a big wave rose suddenly and swept the comb off the bank, and a minute after the head of her husband rose from the pond and gazed sadly at her.

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**Who acts:** wife, minute · **What happens:** hear, rush, sweep, rise, gaze · **To what, where:** rushing sound, comb, bank, pond

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, minute), 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:pg640:21:14
# text = Soon she heard a rushing sound, and a big wave rose suddenly and swept the comb off the bank, and a minute after the head of her husband rose from the pond and gazed sadly at her.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
37	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	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 | wife | a rushing sound |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sweep** | past | wife *not said here* | the comb |  | the bank |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent comb=Theme off bank=Trajectory |
| 4 | **rise** | past | a minute after the head of wife's husband |  |  | the pond |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from pond=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **gaze** | past | a minute after the head of wife's husband *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at wife; sadly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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