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title: All around on the dreary shore there was snow and snow as far as the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: All around on the dreary shore there was snow and snow as far as the eye could see; little grey men in shaggy skins moved about, and drove in small sledges through the snow drifts, but the sledges were drawn by dogs. Who acts: eye, dreary shore, snow, dogs. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by An
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 97

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All around on the dreary shore there was snow and snow as far as the eye could see; little grey men in shaggy skins moved about, and drove in small sledges through the snow drifts, but the sledges were drawn by dogs.

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**Who acts:** eye, dreary shore, snow, dogs · **What happens:** see, move about, drive, drift, draw · **To what, where:** small sledges, sledges

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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 (eye, dreary shore, snow, dogs), 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:pg3454:14:97
# text = All around on the dreary shore there was snow and snow as far as the eye could see; little grey men in shaggy skins moved about, and drove in small sledges through the snow drifts, but the sledges were drawn by dogs.
1	All	all	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	around	around	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dreary	dreary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	skins	skin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	drifts	drift	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
43	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | could | the eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **move about** | past | the dreary shore |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | past | the dreary shore *not said here* |  |  | small sledges |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drift** | present | the snow |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **draw** | past · passive | dogs | the sledges |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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