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title: But a sleep as of death held her in its spell, and no noise seemed a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But a sleep as of death held her in its spell, and no noise seemed able to waken the sleeper. Who acts: sleep, noise. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 56

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But a sleep as of death held her in its spell, and no noise seemed able to waken the sleeper.

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**Who acts:** sleep, noise · **What happens:** hold, seem, waken, spell · **To what, where:** silence, spell, sleeper

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sleep, noise), 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:pg7277:55:56
# text = But a sleep as of death held her in its spell, and no noise seemed able to waken the sleeper.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	6	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	waken	waken	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sleeper	sleeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | a sleep as death | silence |  | sleep's spell |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme in spell=Location |
| 2 | **seem** | past | no noise |  |  |  |  | able *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **waken** | to-infinitive | no noise *not said here* | the sleeper |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sleeper=Patient |
| 4 | **spell** |  | sleep |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state 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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