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title: This was followed by such noises and crashings down in the earth tha… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This was followed by such noises and crashings down in the earth that all the King’s Palace shook, so that no one expected anything else than to see every bit of it shaken to pieces. Who acts: such noises, Palace. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31),
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 54

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This was followed by such noises and crashings down in the earth that all the King’s Palace shook, so that no one expected anything else than to see every bit of it shaken to pieces.

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**Who acts:** such noises, Palace · **What happens:** follow, shake, expect, see · **To what, where:** This, earth, one, bit, pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such noises, Palace), 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:pg640:47:54
# text = This was followed by such noises and crashings down in the earth that all the King’s Palace shook, so that no one expected anything else than to see every bit of it shaken to pieces.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	crashings	crashing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	parataxis	_	_
27	else	else	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
31	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
32	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	_
35	shaken	shake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past · passive | such noises and crashings | This |  | the earth |  | down *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in earth=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shake** | past | the King's Palace | the earth |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 3 | **expect** | participle |  | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | such noises and crashings *not said here* | every bit of Palace |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bit=Stimulus |
| 5 | **shake** | participle |  | every bit of Palace *not said here* |  | pieces |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent to piece=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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