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title: The sound of the flying hoofs aroused the nun, who understood instan… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3, sentence 72

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The sound of the flying hoofs aroused the nun, who understood instantly that the precious treasure was stolen, and her shrieks were so loud and piercing that all the rest came flying to see what was the matter.

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**Who acts:** sound, nun, shrieks, rest, princess · **What happens:** fly, arouse, understand, steal, be, pierce · **To what, where:** nun, precious treasure, matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, nun, shrieks, rest), 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:pg641:40:72
# text = The sound of the flying hoofs aroused the nun, who understood instantly that the precious treasure was stolen, and her shrieks were so loud and piercing that all the rest came flying to see what was the matter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nun	nun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	shrieks	shriek	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	piercing	pierce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
34	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	xcomp	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	advcl	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arouse** | past | the sound of the flying hoofs | the nun |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus nun=Experiencer |
| 3 | **understand** | past | the nun |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **steal** | past · passive |  | the precious treasure |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | princess's shrieks |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pierce** | gerund | princess's shrieks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **come** | past | all rest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **fly** | gerund | all rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **see** | to-infinitive | all rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **is a** | past |  | the matter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **shriek** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom shriek «communication transitive»: 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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