--- title: Instantly the whole meadow resounded to the melodious chiming of a p… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Instantly the whole meadow resounded to the melodious chiming of a peal of silver bells, and they sounded so pretty that I sat down to listen, and to watch them as they swung shining in the sunbeams. Who acts: whole meadow, melodious, bells, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole meadow, melodious, bells, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:38:45 # text = Instantly the whole meadow resounded to the melodious chiming of a peal of silver bells, and they sounded so pretty that I sat down to listen, and to watch them as they swung shining in the sunbeams. 1 Instantly instantly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 resounded resound VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 melodious melodiou NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 chiming chime VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 acl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 peal peal NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 bells bell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sounded sound VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 25 down down ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 swung swing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 sunbeams sunbeam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **resound** | participle | the whole meadow | | | | | to the melodious; instantly *property* | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **chime** | gerund | the melodious *not said here* | | | | | of a peal of silver bells | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **sound** | past | bells *= bell* | | | | | pretty *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **sit down** | past | I | | | | | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **listen** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **watch** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | bells *= bell* | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 7 | **swing** | past | bells *= bell* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **shine** | gerund | bells *= bell* *not said here* | | | the sunbeams | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunbeam=Location | | 9 | **peal** | | silver bells | | | | | | nom peal «event intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/46/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/)