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title: When he reached the meat-market he found the whole place in turmoil,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When he reached the meat-market he found the whole place in turmoil, and a great noise of angry voices and barking of dogs. Who acts: Martin, angry voices. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 7

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When he reached the meat-market he found the whole place in turmoil, and a great noise of angry voices and barking of dogs.

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**Who acts:** Martin, angry voices · **What happens:** reach, find, noise · **To what, where:** meat market, whole place, turmoil

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, angry voices), 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:pg640:33:7
# text = When he reached the meat-market he found the whole place in turmoil, and a great noise of angry voices and barking of dogs.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	turmoil	turmoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	barking	barking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Martin | the meat market |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent market=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Martin | the whole place |  | turmoil |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 3 | **noise** |  | angry voices and barking of dogs |  |  |  |  |  | nom noise «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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