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description: And immediately there was a whirring noise in the air, and a great flight of crickets alighted beside him, and amongst them the cricket whose life he had saved. Who acts: whirring noise. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, with its dependency t
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 31

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And immediately there was a whirring noise in the air, and a great flight of crickets alighted beside him, and amongst them the cricket whose life he had saved.

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**Who acts:** whirring noise · **What happens:** be, alight, save · **To what, where:** crickets, cricket

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whirring 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:pg7128:21:31
# text = And immediately there was a whirring noise in the air, and a great flight of crickets alighted beside him, and amongst them the cricket whose life he had saved.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	whirring	whirring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	crickets	cricket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a whirring noise in the air |  |  | there |  | immediately *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **alight** | participle |  | crickets *not said here* |  |  |  | beside noise | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | past · perfect · passive |  | the cricket |  |  |  | amongst feelers *= feeler* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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