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title: All day Pivi played about in the river, as the natives do, throwing… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All day Pivi played about in the river, as the natives do, throwing fruit and silvery showers of water at each other. Who acts: Pivi, natives. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 87

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All day Pivi played about in the river, as the natives do, throwing fruit and silvery showers of water at each other.

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**Who acts:** Pivi, natives · **What happens:** play about, do, throw · **To what, where:** river, fruit, each

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi, natives), 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:pg3282:19:87
# text = All day Pivi played about in the river, as the natives do, throwing fruit and silvery showers of water at each other.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	15	obl	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	fixed	_	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 | **play about** | past | Pivi |  |  | the river | day | about *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | present | the natives |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **throw** | gerund | the natives *not said here* | fruit and silvery showers of water |  | each |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme at each=Destination |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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