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title: They sound melancholy perhaps, but the two voices sang them gaily en… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They sound melancholy perhaps, but the two voices sang them gaily enough, and the Queen burst open the door, crying, ‘Ah! my Turritella, there is some treachery going on here!’ Who acts: enemies, two voices, Queen, Turritella. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 96

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They sound melancholy perhaps, but the two voices sang them gaily enough, and the Queen burst open the door, crying, ‘Ah! my Turritella, there is some treachery going on here!’

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**Who acts:** enemies, two voices, Queen, Turritella · **What happens:** sound, sing, burst, open, cry, go · **To what, where:** melancholy, enemies, door

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enemies, two voices, Queen, Turritella), 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:pg7277:3:96
# text = They sound melancholy perhaps, but the two voices sang them gaily enough, and the Queen burst open the door, crying, ‘Ah! my Turritella, there is some treachery going on here!’
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
13	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	29	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	Turritella	Turritella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	treachery	treachery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
35	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | enemies *= enemy* | melancholy |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location melancholy=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the two voices | enemies *= enemy* |  |  |  | gaily *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |
| 3 | **burst** | past | the Queen |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | infinitive | the Queen *not said here* | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the Queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **go** | present · progressive | my Turritella |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on here=Location |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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