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description: But before they had accomplished half the way they heard again the rustle of her garments and her muttered curses pursuing them closely. Who acts: they, girl, curses, garments. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 2

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But before they had accomplished half the way they heard again the rustle of her garments and her muttered curses pursuing them closely.

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**Who acts:** they, girl, curses, garments · **What happens:** accomplish, hear, mutter, pursue, rustle · **To what, where:** way, rustle, curses

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (they, girl, curses, garments), 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:pg640:26:2
# text = But before they had accomplished half the way they heard again the rustle of her garments and her muttered curses pursuing them closely.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	rustle	rustle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	muttered	mutter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	curses	curse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
21	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accomplish** | past · perfect | they | half way |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | they | the rustle of girl's garments |  |  | again |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rustle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | past | girl | curses |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curse=Topic |
| 4 | **pursue** | gerund | curses *not said here* | curses *= curse* |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **rustle** |  | girl's garments |  |  |  |  |  | nom rustle «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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