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title: On and on came the fish, holding the crown tightly in her mouth, and… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On and on came the fish, holding the crown tightly in her mouth, and the others moved back to let her pass. Who acts: fish, others. 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 35

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On and on came the fish, holding the crown tightly in her mouth, and the others moved back to let her pass.

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**Who acts:** fish, others · **What happens:** come, hold, move back, let, pass · **To what, where:** crown, mouth, 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, others), 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:pg3027:26:35
# text = On and on came the fish, holding the crown tightly in her mouth, and the others moved back to let her pass.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	conj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	tightly	tightly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the fish *not said here* | the crown |  | Fish's mouth |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent crown=Theme in mouth=Location |
| 3 | **move back** | past | the others |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | to-infinitive | the others *not said here* | Fish |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pass** | infinitive | Fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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