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title: She uttered a piercing shriek so that the mountains re-echoed with t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She uttered a piercing shriek so that the mountains re-echoed with the sound of it, and the terrified pair had hardly dared to look out from their hiding-place when the enraged woman, with her dress and hair flying in the wind, hurried over the bridge of clouds. Who acts: Fairy, mountains, hair. A s
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 87

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She uttered a piercing shriek so that the mountains re-echoed with the sound of it, and the terrified pair had hardly dared to look out from their hiding-place when the enraged woman, with her dress and hair flying in the wind, hurried over the bridge of clouds.

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**Who acts:** Fairy, mountains, hair · **What happens:** utter, re-echo, dare, look out, enrage, fly · **To what, where:** piercing shriek, terrified pair, hiding place, wind, dress, bridge

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, mountains, hair), 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:pg640:25:87
# text = She uttered a piercing shriek so that the mountains re-echoed with the sound of it, and the terrified pair had hardly dared to look out from their hiding-place when the enraged woman, with her dress and hair flying in the wind, hurried over the bridge of clouds.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	uttered	utter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	piercing	piercing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	re-echoed	re-echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	dared	dare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	_
42	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
48	over	over	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | Fairy | a piercing shriek |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shriek=Topic |
| 2 | **re-echo** | past | the mountains |  |  |  |  | with the sound of sound | tree rules |
| 3 | **dare** | past · perfect · passive |  | the terrified pair |  |  |  | the enraged woman *obl*; hardly *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look out** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | mountains's hiding place |  |  | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **enrage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **fly** | gerund | hair *not said here* |  |  | the wind |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wind=Location |
| 7 | **hurry** | participle |  | Fairy's dress and hair *not said here* |  | the bridge of clouds |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory |

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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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