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title: Sprats and herrings in powers Of silvery showers All number out-numb… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Sprats and herrings in powers Of silvery showers All number out-numbered; And great ling so lengthy Was there in such plenty The shore was encumber’d. Who acts: shore. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 41

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Sprats and herrings in powers Of silvery showers All number out-numbered; And great ling so lengthy Was there in such plenty The shore was encumber’d.

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**Who acts:** shore · **What happens:** number, be · **To what, where:** number, such plenty

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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 (shore), 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:pg3454:18:41
# text = Sprats and herrings in powers Of silvery showers All number out-numbered; And great ling so lengthy Was there in such plenty The shore was encumber’d.
1	Sprats	sprat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	herrings	herring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	silvery	silvery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	All	all	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	numbered	number	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ling	ling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	lengthy	lengthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	Was	Be	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	encumber	encumber	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **number** | participle |  | number *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the shore | such plenty *not said here* |  |  |  | encumber *property* | tree rules |

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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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