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title: In this way they kept on at it, framing high compliments; one answer… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In this way they kept on at it, framing high compliments; one answering the other, and their feet going with the music as fast as their tongues. Who acts: lips, one, feet. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 55

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In this way they kept on at it, framing high compliments; one answering the other, and their feet going with the music as fast as their tongues.

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**Who acts:** lips, one, feet · **What happens:** keep on, frame, answer, go · **To what, where:** way, high compliments, other

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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 (lips, one, feet), 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:pg3454:18:55
# text = In this way they kept on at it, framing high compliments; one answering the other, and their feet going with the music as fast as their tongues.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	framing	frame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	compliments	compliment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nsubj	_	_
15	answering	answer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep on** | past | lips *= lip* |  |  | this way |  | at way | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location |
| 2 | **frame** | gerund | lips *= lip* *not said here* | high compliments |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent compliment=Destination |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | gerund | one | the other |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go** | gerund | lips's feet |  |  |  |  | with the music; fast *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with music=Beneficiary |

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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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