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title: ‘Begin!’ cried their leader, and ‘Begin!’ shouted the rest in chorus. — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Begin!’ cried their leader, and ‘Begin!’ shouted the rest in chorus. Who acts: leader, rest. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 49

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‘Begin!’ cried their leader, and ‘Begin!’ shouted the rest in chorus.

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**Who acts:** leader, rest · **What happens:** begin, cry, shout · **To what, where:** chorus

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader, rest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:2447`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:31:49
# text = ‘Begin!’ cried their leader, and ‘Begin!’ shouted the rest in chorus.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Begin	begin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Begin	begin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	chorus	chorus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | dwarfs's leader |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the rest |  |  | chorus |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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