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title: Peeping cautiously between the wooden pillars of the chapel, he saw… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Peeping cautiously between the wooden pillars of the chapel, he saw a troop of hideous cats, dancing furiously, making the night horrible with their yells. Who acts: sound, cats. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 175

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Peeping cautiously between the wooden pillars of the chapel, he saw a troop of hideous cats, dancing furiously, making the night horrible with their yells.

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**Who acts:** sound, cats · **What happens:** peep, see, dance, make, yell · **To what, where:** troop

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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 (sound, cats), 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:pg641:4:175
# text = Peeping cautiously between the wooden pillars of the chapel, he saw a troop of hideous cats, dancing furiously, making the night horrible with their yells.
1	Peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	advcl	_	_
2	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	hideous	hideous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	cats	cat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	yells	yell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | gerund | sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between the wooden pillars of the chapel; cautiously *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent between pillar=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | sound | a troop of hideous cats |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer troop=Stimulus |
| 3 | **dance** | gerund | sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | furiously *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | gerund | sound *not said here* |  |  |  | night | horrible *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **yell** |  | cats *= cat* |  |  |  |  |  | nom yell «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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