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title: In a pool of the river a whale was resting, blowing water into the a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In a pool of the river a whale was resting, blowing water into the air and making a lovely fountain. Who acts: whale. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 50

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In a pool of the river a whale was resting, blowing water into the air and making a lovely fountain.

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**Who acts:** whale · **What happens:** rest, blow, make · **To what, where:** pool, water, air, lovely fountain

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whale), 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:pg3282:35:50
# text = In a pool of the river a whale was resting, blowing water into the air and making a lovely fountain.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	resting	rest	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past · progressive | a whale |  |  | a pool of the river |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in pool=Location |
| 2 | **blow** | gerund | a whale *not said here* | water |  | the air |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent water=Material into air=Product |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | a whale *not said here* | a lovely fountain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fountain=Product |

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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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