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title: John-dories came tripping; Dull hake, by their skipping, To frisk it… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: John-dories came tripping; Dull hake, by their skipping, To frisk it seem’d given; Bright mackrel went springing, Like small rainbows winging Their flight up to heaven. Who acts: John dories, it, Bright mackrel, small rainbows. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Boo
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 39

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John-dories came tripping; Dull hake, by their skipping, To frisk it seem’d given; Bright mackrel went springing, Like small rainbows winging Their flight up to heaven.

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**Who acts:** John dories, it, Bright mackrel, small rainbows · **What happens:** come, trip, frisk, seem, give, go · **To what, where:** Dull hake, ’d, small rainbows, flight

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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 (John dories, it, Bright mackrel, small rainbows), 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:pg3454:18:39
# text = John-dories came tripping; Dull hake, by their skipping, To frisk it seem’d given; Bright mackrel went springing, Like small rainbows winging Their flight up to heaven.
1	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	dories	dory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tripping	trip	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Dull	dull	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	hake	hake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	skipping	skipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	To	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	frisk	frisk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mackrel	mackrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	rainbows	rainbow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
29	winging	wing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
30	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	up	up	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **come** | past | John dories | Dull hake |  |  |  | by dories's skipping | tree rules |
| 2 | **trip** | gerund | John dories *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **frisk** | to-infinitive | John dories *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | present | it | ’d |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme 'd=Attribute |
| 5 | **give** | participle |  | ’d *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **go** | past | Bright mackrel |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **spring** | gerund | Bright mackrel *not said here* | small rainbows |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location rainbow=Theme |
| 8 | **wing** | gerund | small rainbows *not said here* | dories's flight |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flight=Trajectory |

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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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