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title: They came to a shore where it was all so cool and familiar and frien… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They came to a shore where it was all so cool and familiar and friendly. Who acts: lions, shore. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 133

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They came to a shore where it was all so cool and familiar and friendly.

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**Who acts:** lions, shore · **What happens:** come, be

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lions, shore), 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:pg3454:14:133
# text = They came to a shore where it was all so cool and familiar and friendly.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | lions *= lion* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | shore |  |  |  |  | to a shore; all, cool *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | shore *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | shore *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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