--- title: Then he heard the sound of cheerful voices, and the song of the blac… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he heard the sound of cheerful voices, and the song of the blacksmiths as they blew their bellows--he even felt as if he saw the sparks flashing before his eyes. Who acts: friend, blacksmiths, sparks. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its depend --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/75/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Underground Workers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/) / 75 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 75 Then he heard the sound of cheerful voices, and the song of the blacksmiths as they blew their bellows--he even felt as if he saw the sparks flashing before his eyes. **Who acts:** friend, blacksmiths, sparks · **What happens:** hear, blow, feel, see, flash, sing · **To what, where:** sound, bellows, sparks, eyes 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 (friend, blacksmiths, sparks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:25:75 # text = Then he heard the sound of cheerful voices, and the song of the blacksmiths as they blew their bellows--he even felt as if he saw the sparks flashing before his eyes. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 cheerful cheerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 blacksmiths blacksmith NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 bellows bellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 even even ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sparks spark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 31 flashing flash VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 before before ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | friend | the sound of cheerful voices | | | then | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | | 2 | **blow** | past | blacksmiths *= blacksmith* | blacksmiths's bellows | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient | | 3 | **feel** | past | friend | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | past | friend | the sparks | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spark=Stimulus | | 5 | **flash** | gerund | the sparks *not said here* | | | friend's eyes | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before eye=Location | | 6 | **sing** | | the blacksmiths | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | | 7 | **bellow** | | blacksmiths *= blacksmith* | | | | | | nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/76/) - ↑ back to [The Underground Workers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/25/)