--- title: There was a great throng, and while they were pressing through the d… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: There was a great throng, and while they were pressing through the doorway the Wise Man, who had a bottle of black ointment hidden in his robes, placed a tiny dot on the cheek of the Shifty Lad near his ear. Who acts: great throng, people, Wise Man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great throng, people, Wise Man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:2:97 # text = There was a great throng, and while they were pressing through the doorway the Wise Man, who had a bottle of black ointment hidden in his robes, placed a tiny dot on the cheek of the Shifty Lad near his ear. 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 throng throng NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 8 while while SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 pressing press VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 doorway doorway NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 Wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 Man Man PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bottle bottle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 ointment ointment NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 26 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 robes robe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 31 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 dot dot NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 cheek cheek NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Shifty shifty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 Lad Lad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 near near ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a great throng | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **press** | past · progressive | people | the Wise Man | | the doorway | | | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | the Wise Man | a bottle of black ointment | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient | | 4 | **hide** | participle | | black ointment *not said here* | | throng's robes | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in robe=Location | | 5 | **place** | past | a great throng *not said here* | a tiny dot | | the cheek of the Shifty Lad near throng's ear | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dot=Theme on cheek=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/98/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/)