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title: As he drew near his house a sound of voices struck upon his ear, and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he drew near his house a sound of voices struck upon his ear, and he looked up to see the whole place full of children. Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 33

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As he drew near his house a sound of voices struck upon his ear, and he looked up to see the whole place full of children.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** draw, strike, look up, see · **To what, where:** sound, house, voices, ear, whole place

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg641:13:33
# text = As he drew near his house a sound of voices struck upon his ear, and he looked up to see the whole place full of children.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | man | a sound of voices |  | man's house |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 2 | **strike** | participle |  | voices *not said here* |  | man's ear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon ear=Location |
| 3 | **look up** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the whole place |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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