--- title: ‘With these words she turned and gave a vigorous pull to the silken… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘With these words she turned and gave a vigorous pull to the silken rope which I mentioned before, but instead of a melodious chime, there arose a hideous clanging which quite terrified me, and in an instant a huge Black Bird appeared, which alighted at the Fairy’s feet, saying in a frightful voice- --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/) / 61 # The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3, sentence 61 ‘With these words she turned and gave a vigorous pull to the silken rope which I mentioned before, but instead of a melodious chime, there arose a hideous clanging which quite terrified me, and in an instant a huge Black Bird appeared, which alighted at the Fairy’s feet, saying in a frightful voice-- **Who acts:** current, I, hideous clanging, huge Black Bird · **What happens:** turn, give, mention, arise, terrify, appear · **To what, where:** vigorous pull, silken rope, hideous clanging, me, instant, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, 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 (current, I, hideous clanging, huge Black Bird), 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:pg7277:38:61 # text = ‘With these words she turned and gave a vigorous pull to the silken rope which I mentioned before, but instead of a melodious chime, there arose a hideous clanging which quite terrified me, and in an instant a huge Black Bird appeared, which alighted at the Fairy’s feet, saying in a frightful voice-- 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 With with ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 vigorous vigorous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 silken silken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 obj _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 mentioned mention VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 before before ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 22 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 26 case _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 melodious melodious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 chime chime NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 28 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 29 expl _ _ 29 arose arise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 hideous hideous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 clanging clanging NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 quite quite ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 terrified terrify VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 43 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 Black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 49 nsubj:pass _ _ 49 alighted alight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 46 xcomp _ _ 50 at at ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ’s 's PART POS _ 52 case _ _ 54 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 49 advcl _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 59 frightful frightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 -- -- PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | current | | | | | with this words | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **give** | past | current *not said here* | a vigorous pull | the silken rope | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent pull=Theme to rope=Recipient | | 3 | **mention** *speech: other* | past | I | the silken rope | | | | before *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent which=Topic | | 4 | **arise** | past | current *not said here* | a hideous clanging | | there | | instead a melodious chime | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location clanging=Theme | | 5 | **terrify** | past | a hideous clanging | me | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | | 6 | **appear** | past | a huge Black Bird | | | a instant | | | tree rules | | 7 | **alight** | participle · passive | | | | the Fairy's feet | | | tree rules | | 8 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | | | | a frightful voice | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/62/) - ↑ back to [Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/38/)