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title: A splashing noise near by drew him down to a valley through which ra… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A splashing noise near by drew him down to a valley through which ran a large river, and up a waterfall some salmon were leaping. Who acts: splashing noise, salmon. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 33

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A splashing noise near by drew him down to a valley through which ran a large river, and up a waterfall some salmon were leaping.

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**Who acts:** splashing noise, salmon · **What happens:** draw down, run, leap · **To what, where:** noise, large river, waterfall

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splashing noise, salmon), 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:pg3027:35:33
# text = A splashing noise near by drew him down to a valley through which ran a large river, and up a waterfall some salmon were leaping.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	splashing	splashing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	obj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	up	up	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	waterfall	waterfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	leaping	leap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw down** | past | a splashing noise *not said here* |  | noise |  |  | to a valley | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary which=Result |
| 2 | **run** | past | a splashing noise | a large river |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory |
| 3 | **leap** | past · progressive | some salmon |  |  | a waterfall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up waterfall=Trajectory |

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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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