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title: They sprang back hurriedly, quite forgetting where they stood, and a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They sprang back hurriedly, quite forgetting where they stood, and all fell down the bank, each tumbling over the other, till they rolled into the pool that lay below. Who acts: people, each, pool. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependenc
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 92

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They sprang back hurriedly, quite forgetting where they stood, and all fell down the bank, each tumbling over the other, till they rolled into the pool that lay below.

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**Who acts:** people, each, pool · **What happens:** spring back, forget, stand, fall down, tumble, roll · **To what, where:** bank, other, pool

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, each, pool), 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:pg3454:17:92
# text = They sprang back hurriedly, quite forgetting where they stood, and all fell down the bank, each tumbling over the other, till they rolled into the pool that lay below.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	hurriedly	hurriedly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	forgetting	forget	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	10	advmod	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
20	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
21	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
32	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	below	below	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	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 | **spring back** | past | people |  |  |  |  | hurriedly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | gerund | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stand** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall down** | past |  | the bank |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient bank=Result |
| 5 | **tumble** | gerund | each |  |  | the other |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over other=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **roll** | past | people |  |  | the pool |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into pool=Destination |
| 7 | **lie** | past | the pool |  |  |  |  | below *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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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