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title: Every inch of it covered with all manner of fish jumping and plungin… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Every inch of it covered with all manner of fish jumping and plunging about to the music, and every moment more and more would tumble in and out of the water, charmed by the wonderful tune. Who acts: fish, moment. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, wi
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 33

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Every inch of it covered with all manner of fish jumping and plunging about to the music, and every moment more and more would tumble in and out of the water, charmed by the wonderful tune.

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**Who acts:** fish, moment · **What happens:** cover, jump, plunge, tumble in, charm · **To what, where:** inch, music, water

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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 (fish, moment), 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:pg3454:18:33
# text = Every inch of it covered with all manner of fish jumping and plunging about to the music, and every moment more and more would tumble in and out of the water, charmed by the wonderful tune.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	plunging	plunge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	conj	_	_
14	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	conj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	tumble	tumble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	charmed	charm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **cover** | participle · passive |  | every inch of dancing |  |  |  | with all manner of fish | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with manner=Theme |
| 2 | **jump** | gerund | fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **plunge** | gerund | fish *not said here* |  |  | the music |  | about *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to music=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **tumble in** | would | every moment |  |  | the water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out water=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **charm** | participle |  | the water *not said here* |  |  |  | by the wonderful tune | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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