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title: She had not time to say more, when the whole castle shook, and a rus… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She had not time to say more, when the whole castle shook, and a rustling, hissing, groaning sound was heard. Who acts: girl, whole castle. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 115

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She had not time to say more, when the whole castle shook, and a rustling, hissing, groaning sound was heard.

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**Who acts:** girl, whole castle · **What happens:** have, say, shake, hiss, groan, hear · **To what, where:** rustling, more, sound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, whole castle), 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:pg641:4:115
# text = She had not time to say more, when the whole castle shook, and a rustling, hissing, groaning sound was heard.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	13	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	rustling	rustling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	hissing	hiss	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | girl | a rustling |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
| 3 | **shake** | past | the whole castle |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hiss** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **groan** | gerund | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **hear** | past · passive |  | sound |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=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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