---
title: The sweet sounds they followed, The gasping cod swallow’d-- ‘Twas wo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The sweet sounds they followed, The gasping cod swallow’d-- ‘Twas wonderful, really; And turbot and flounder, ‘Mid fish that were rounder, Just caper’d as gaily. Who acts: Came, gasping, turbot. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency t
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/38/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/) / 38

# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 38

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The sweet sounds they followed, The gasping cod swallow’d-- ‘Twas wonderful, really; And turbot and flounder, ‘Mid fish that were rounder, Just caper’d as gaily.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Came, gasping, turbot · **What happens:** follow, 'd, be · **To what, where:** sweet sounds

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Came, gasping, turbot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg3454:18:38
# text = The sweet sounds they followed, The gasping cod swallow’d-- ‘Twas wonderful, really; And turbot and flounder, ‘Mid fish that were rounder, Just caper’d as gaily.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	gasping	gasping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	cod	cod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	swallow	swallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
15	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
17	really	really	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
20	turbot	turbot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	flounder	flounder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Mid	mid	ADJ	JJ	_	26	amod	_	_
26	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	rounder	round	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	Just	Just	PROPN	NNP	_	33	compound	_	_
32	caper	caper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past | Came | the sweet sounds and the cod swallow ’d and Twas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 2 | **'d** |  | gasping |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | turbot and flounder |  |  |  |  | Just caper ’d as gaily *obl*; round *property* | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/37/)
- next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/39/)
- ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/)