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title: The whiting and haddock Left salt water paddock This dance to be put… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The whiting and haddock Left salt water paddock This dance to be put in; Where skate with flat faces Edged out some old plaices; But soles kept their footing. Who acts: whiting, soles. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 40

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The whiting and haddock Left salt water paddock This dance to be put in; Where skate with flat faces Edged out some old plaices; But soles kept their footing.

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**Who acts:** whiting, soles · **What happens:** leave, paddock, put in, edge out, keep · **To what, where:** dance, skate, footing

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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 (whiting, soles), 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:pg3454:18:40
# text = The whiting and haddock Left salt water paddock This dance to be put in; Where skate with flat faces Edged out some old plaices; But soles kept their footing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whiting	whiting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	haddock	haddock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
6	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	paddock	paddock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
17	skate	skate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	Edged	edge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	plaices	plaice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	footing	footing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **paddock** | infinitive | the whiting and haddock | this dance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **put in** | to-infinitive · passive | the whiting and haddock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» |
| 4 | **edge out** | participle | the whiting and haddock *not said here* | skate with flat faces |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plaice=Destination |
| 5 | **keep** | past | soles | soles's footing |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=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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