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description: And all day long it would lie coiled round a rock in the middle of the stream, while at night it came forth from the river and harried the country side. Who acts: Worm. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 107

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And all day long it would lie coiled round a rock in the middle of the stream, while at night it came forth from the river and harried the country side.

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**Who acts:** Worm · **What happens:** lie, coil, come, harry · **To what, where:** rock, river, country side

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worm), 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:pg14241:32:107
# text = And all day long it would lie coiled round a rock in the middle of the stream, while at night it came forth from the river and harried the country side.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	coiled	coil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
9	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	harried	harry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | would | Worm |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **coil** | participle | Worm *not said here* |  |  | a rock in the middle of the stream |  |  | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round rock=Destination |
| 3 | **come** | past | Worm |  |  | the river | night | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from river=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **harry** | past | Worm *not said here* | the country side |  |  |  |  | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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