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title: Then these again melted into fountains, whose waters interlaced and,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then these again melted into fountains, whose waters interlaced and, rushing down the sides of the hall, poured out in a cascade down the steps, and formed a river found the castle, with the most beautiful little boats upon it, all painted and gilded. Who acts: these, river, beautiful little boats. 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 28, sentence 88

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Then these again melted into fountains, whose waters interlaced and, rushing down the sides of the hall, poured out in a cascade down the steps, and formed a river found the castle, with the most beautiful little boats upon it, all painted and gilded.

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**Who acts:** these, river, beautiful little boats · **What happens:** melt, interlace, rush, pour out, form, find · **To what, where:** fountains, waters, sides, cascade, castle, all

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (these, river, beautiful little boats), 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:pg3027:28:88
# text = Then these again melted into fountains, whose waters interlaced and, rushing down the sides of the hall, poured out in a cascade down the steps, and formed a river found the castle, with the most beautiful little boats upon it, all painted and gilded.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
10	interlaced	interlace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	rushing	rush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cascade	cascade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	formed	form	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
40	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	41	advmod	_	_
41	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | participle | these |  |  | fountains and fountains and fountains's waters's waters | then; again |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into fountain=Product |
| 2 | **interlace** | participle |  | fountains and fountains and waters's waters's waters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **rush** | gerund |  |  |  | the sides of the hall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down side=Trajectory |
| 4 | **pour out** | participle |  | fountains and fountains and fountains's waters's waters *not said here* |  | a cascade |  | down the steps | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down step=Location |
| 5 | **form** | past | these *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **find** | past | a river | the castle |  |  |  | with the beautiful little boats upon castle | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic |
| 7 | **paint** | participle · passive | the beautiful little boats upon castle *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 8 | **gild** | participle | the beautiful little boats upon castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=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 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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