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title: And, plunging in, she swam along the bottom as far as the palace, wh… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And, plunging in, she swam along the bottom as far as the palace, where the queen and all the fishes gathered together awaiting her. Who acts: Fish, queen. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 25

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And, plunging in, she swam along the bottom as far as the palace, where the queen and all the fishes gathered together awaiting her.

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**Who acts:** Fish, queen · **What happens:** plunge in, swim, gather, await · **To what, where:** bottom, Fish

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fish, queen), 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:pg3027:26:25
# text = And, plunging in, she swam along the bottom as far as the palace, where the queen and all the fishes gathered together awaiting her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	plunging	plunge	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
24	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	together	together	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plunge in** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **swim** | past | Fish |  |  | the bottom |  | as the palace | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory |
| 3 | **gather** | past | the queen and all fishes |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **await** | gerund | the queen and all fishes *not said here* | Fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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