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title: One day they were all walking down to a lake that lay at the bottom… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day they were all walking down to a lake that lay at the bottom of the lawn when they met a poor beggar. Who acts: princes, lake. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 82

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One day they were all walking down to a lake that lay at the bottom of the lawn when they met a poor beggar.

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**Who acts:** princes, lake · **What happens:** walk down, lie, meet · **To what, where:** bottom, poor beggar

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, lake), 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:pg3454:10:82
# text = One day they were all walking down to a lake that lay at the bottom of the lawn when they met a poor beggar.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk down** | past · progressive | princes *= prince* |  |  |  | day | to a lake *result*; all, down *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lake=Result |
| 2 | **lie** | past | a lake |  |  | the bottom of the lawn |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location |
| 3 | **meet** | past | princes *= prince* | a poor beggar |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Co-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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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