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title: And the fishes gathered round it as they had done on the top of the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the fishes gathered round it as they had done on the top of the cliff, and found the flames as hot as before, and that fire never went out, like those upon land, but kept burning for ever. Who acts: fishes, fire. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17,
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 95

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And the fishes gathered round it as they had done on the top of the cliff, and found the flames as hot as before, and that fire never went out, like those upon land, but kept burning for ever.

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**Who acts:** fishes, fire · **What happens:** gather, do, find, not go out, keep, burn · **To what, where:** top, flames

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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 (fishes, fire), 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:pg3454:17:95
# text = And the fishes gathered round it as they had done on the top of the cliff, and found the flames as hot as before, and that fire never went out, like those upon land, but kept burning for ever.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	before	before	ADV	RB	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
32	out	out	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	like	like	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	obl	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
41	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	xcomp	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | the fishes |  |  |  |  | round pool | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect | fishes *= fish* |  |  | the top of the cliff |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past |  | the flames |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **go out** | past | that fire |  |  |  |  | like those; out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **keep** | past | the fishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **burn** | gerund | the fishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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