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title: All at once there came in at the window the most glorious burst of s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All at once there came in at the window the most glorious burst of song. Who acts: All. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 162

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All at once there came in at the window the most glorious burst of song.

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**Who acts:** All · **What happens:** come in, burst · **To what, where:** window, song

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (All), 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:pg640:48:162
# text = All at once there came in at the window the most glorious burst of song.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	burst	burst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come in** | past | All |  |  | the window and the glorious burst of song |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at window=Location |
| 2 | **burst** |  |  | song |  |  |  |  | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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