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title: But, notwithstanding, in Ballinskellig Bay there is a neat bit of gr… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But, notwithstanding, in Ballinskellig Bay there is a neat bit of ground, well fitted for diversion, and down from it, towards the water, is a clean smooth piece of strand, the dead image of a calm summer’s sea on a moonlight night, with just the curl of the small waves upon it. Who acts: Ballinskel
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 12

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But, notwithstanding, in Ballinskellig Bay there is a neat bit of ground, well fitted for diversion, and down from it, towards the water, is a clean smooth piece of strand, the dead image of a calm summer’s sea on a moonlight night, with just the curl of the small waves upon it.

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**Who acts:** Ballinskellig Bay, notwithstanding · **What happens:** notwithstand, be, fit, image · **To what, where:** neat bit, clean smooth piece, sea

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ballinskellig Bay, notwithstanding), 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:pg3454:18:12
# text = But, notwithstanding, in Ballinskellig Bay there is a neat bit of ground, well fitted for diversion, and down from it, towards the water, is a clean smooth piece of strand, the dead image of a calm summer’s sea on a moonlight night, with just the curl of the small waves upon it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	34	csubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Ballinskellig	Ballinskellig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Bay	Bay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	neat	neat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	diversion	diversion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
30	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	strand	strand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	’s	's	PART	POS	_	44	case	_	_
46	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	just	just	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	curl	curl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
58	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nmod	_	_
60	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notwithstand** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | towards the water; down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | present | Ballinskellig Bay |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fit** | participle |  | a neat bit of ground *not said here* |  |  |  | for diversion; well *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | present | notwithstanding | a clean smooth piece and the dead image of a calm summer's sea on a moonlight night and the curl of the small waves upon bit |  |  |  | of strand | tree rules |
| 5 | **image** |  |  | a calm summer's sea |  |  | on a moonlight night |  | nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient on=obl |

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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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