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title: All round it were little bells, and when the pot boiled they jingled… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All round it were little bells, and when the pot boiled they jingled most beautifully and played the old tune-- Who acts: pot, bells. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 39

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All round it were little bells, and when the pot boiled they jingled most beautifully and played the old tune--

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**Who acts:** pot, bells · **What happens:** be, boil, jingle, play · **To what, where:** old tune

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, bells), 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:pg640:43:39
# text = All round it were little bells, and when the pot boiled they jingled most beautifully and played the old tune--
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	boiled	boil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	jingled	jingle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | pot |  |  |  |  | round little bells; all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **boil** | past | the pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **jingle** | past | bells *= bell* |  |  |  |  | beautifully *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **play** | past | bells *= bell* *not said here* | the old tune |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=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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