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title: Men gathered in groups talking and exclaiming, and finding fault wit… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 95

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Men gathered in groups talking and exclaiming, and finding fault with the innkeeper for allowing such a dangerous beast into the serai, and all the while the innkeeper was just as troubled as the rest, and none dared go near the place where the tiger stood blinking miserably on everyone, and where Moti lay stretched out snoring like thunder.

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**Who acts:** Men, groups, innkeeper, none, tiger · **What happens:** gather, talk, exclaim, find, allow, be · **To what, where:** groups, fault, dangerous beast, serai, place, everyone

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Men, groups, innkeeper, none), 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:pg3454:15:95
# text = Men gathered in groups talking and exclaiming, and finding fault with the innkeeper for allowing such a dangerous beast into the serai, and all the while the innkeeper was just as troubled as the rest, and none dared go near the place where the tiger stood blinking miserably on everyone, and where Moti lay stretched out snoring like thunder.
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	groups	group	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	exclaiming	exclaim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	_
11	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	serai	serai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
28	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	just	just	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	41	nsubj	_	_
41	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
42	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
43	near	near	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	49	advmod	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
49	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
50	blinking	blink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	xcomp	_	_
51	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
56	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	58	advmod	_	_
57	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	58	nsubj	_	_
58	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	59	aux:pass	_	_
59	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	conj	_	_
60	out	out	ADP	RP	_	59	compound:prt	_	_
61	snoring	snore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	59	advcl	_	_
62	like	like	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | Men |  |  | groups |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | gerund | groups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **find** | gerund | groups *not said here* | fault |  |  |  | with the innkeeper | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic |
| 5 | **allow** | gerund | groups *not said here* | such dangerous beast |  | the serai |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **is** | past | the innkeeper |  |  |  |  | as the rest; troubled *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **dare** | past | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **go** | infinitive | none *not said here* |  |  | the place |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near place=Location |
| 9 | **stand** | past | the tiger |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 10 | **blink** | gerund | the tiger *not said here* |  |  | everyone |  | miserably *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on everyone=Location |
| 11 | **stretch out** | past · passive | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V» |
| 12 | **snore** | gerund | none *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like thunder | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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