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title: Suddenly a loud noise struck on his ear, and he felt the earth tremb… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Suddenly a loud noise struck on his ear, and he felt the earth tremble beneath his feet. Who acts: loud noise. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 23

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Suddenly a loud noise struck on his ear, and he felt the earth tremble beneath his feet.

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**Who acts:** loud noise · **What happens:** strike, feel · **To what, where:** loud noise, ear, earth tremble, feet

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loud noise), 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:pg641:25:23
# text = Suddenly a loud noise struck on his ear, and he felt the earth tremble beneath his feet.
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
5	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	tremble	tremble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | participle |  | a loud noise *not said here* |  | stranger's ear |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ear=Location |
| 2 | **feel** | past | a loud noise | the earth tremble |  | stranger's feet |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tremble=Theme beneath foot=Location |

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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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