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title: Wondering whence it could come, I was about to call to my maid who s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wondering whence it could come, I was about to call to my maid who slept in the room next mine, when, to my surprise, I felt as if some heavy weight on my chest had taken all power from me, and I lay there unable to utter the slightest sound. Who acts: sound, I, maid, my. A sentence of «The Green Fa
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 59

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Wondering whence it could come, I was about to call to my maid who slept in the room next mine, when, to my surprise, I felt as if some heavy weight on my chest had taken all power from me, and I lay there unable to utter the slightest sound.

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**Who acts:** sound, I, maid, my · **What happens:** wonder, come, be, call, sleep, feel · **To what, where:** maid, next, room, heavy weight, slightest sound · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound, I, maid, my), 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:pg7277:45:59
# text = Wondering whence it could come, I was about to call to my maid who slept in the room next mine, when, to my surprise, I felt as if some heavy weight on my chest had taken all power from me, and I lay there unable to utter the slightest sound.
1	Wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	csubj	_	_
2	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
21	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
32	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
34	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	ccomp	_	_
41	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
42	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
49	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	48	advmod	_	_
50	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	xcomp	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	utter	utter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	slightest	slight	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	55	amod	_	_
55	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | could | sound |  |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **call** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  | my maid |  |  | to my surprise | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to maid=Recipient |
| 5 | **sleep** | past | my maid | next |  | the room |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
| 6 | **feel** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive |  | some heavy weight on my chest |  |  |  | from me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme power=Destination |
| 8 | **lie** | past | I |  |  | there |  | unable *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **utter** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the slightest sound |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sound=Topic |
| 10 | **surprise** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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