---
title: Suddenly she heard a faint sound: it was King Frost springing from t… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly she heard a faint sound: it was King Frost springing from tree to tree, and cracking his fingers as he went. Who acts: girl, sound, King Frost, frost. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/37/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Story of King Frost (26)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/37/) / 11

# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Suddenly she heard a faint sound: it was King Frost springing from tree to tree, and cracking his fingers as he went.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** girl, sound, King Frost, frost · **What happens:** hear, be, spring, crack, go · **To what, where:** faint sound, King Frost, tree, fingers

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, sound, King Frost, frost), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg640:37:11
# text = Suddenly she heard a faint sound: it was King Frost springing from tree to tree, and cracking his fingers as he went.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	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	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	King	king	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Frost	frost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | girl | a faint sound |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | sound | King Frost |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spring** | gerund | King Frost *not said here* |  |  | tree |  | to tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tree=Destination |
| 4 | **crack** | gerund | girl *not said here* | frost's fingers |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location finger=Theme |
| 5 | **go** | past | frost |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/37/10/)
- next →: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/37/12/)
- ↑ back to [The Story of King Frost (26)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/37/)