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title: The weavers, however, were accustomed to swim over this ravine; ther… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The weavers, however, were accustomed to swim over this ravine; therefore, regardless of the fact that this time it was dry, they stripped, and, tying their clothes on their heads, they proceeded to swim across the dry sand and rocks that formed the bed of the ravine. Who acts: time, plans, dry sand
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 64

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The weavers, however, were accustomed to swim over this ravine; therefore, regardless of the fact that this time it was dry, they stripped, and, tying their clothes on their heads, they proceeded to swim across the dry sand and rocks that formed the bed of the ravine.

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**Who acts:** time, plans, dry sand · **What happens:** accustom, swim, be, strip, tie, proceed · **To what, where:** weavers, ravine, fact, clothes, dry sand, bed

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, plans, dry sand), 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:pg3027:13:64
# text = The weavers, however, were accustomed to swim over this ravine; therefore, regardless of the fact that this time it was dry, they stripped, and, tying their clothes on their heads, they proceeded to swim across the dry sand and rocks that formed the bed of the ravine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	weavers	weaver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	regardless	regardless	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	stripped	strip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	tying	tie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	32	obj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	swim	swim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	across	across	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	_
49	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj	_	_
50	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | the weavers |  |  |  | however, regardless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | this ravine |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ravine=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | this time | the fact *not said here* |  |  |  | dry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **strip** | past | plans *= plan* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tie** | gerund | plans *= plan* *not said here* | plans's clothes |  |  |  | on plans's heads | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient on head=Co-Patient |
| 6 | **proceed** | past | plans *= plan* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **swim** | to-infinitive | plans *= plan* *not said here* |  |  | the dry sand and rocks |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across sand=Trajectory |
| 8 | **form** | past | the dry sand and rocks | the bed of the ravine |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bed=Theme |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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