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title: The baby splashed and crowed with delight, and then he gave a spring… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The baby splashed and crowed with delight, and then he gave a spring and fell right in, down, down, down, and his mother could not find him, though she searched all among the reeds. Who acts: baby, mother. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, with its d
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 79

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The baby splashed and crowed with delight, and then he gave a spring and fell right in, down, down, down, and his mother could not find him, though she searched all among the reeds.

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**Who acts:** baby, mother · **What happens:** splash, crow, give, fall, not find, search · **To what, where:** baby, reeds · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, mother), 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:pg3454:21:79
# text = The baby splashed and crowed with delight, and then he gave a spring and fell right in, down, down, down, and his mother could not find him, though she searched all among the reeds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	splashed	splash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	crowed	crow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
17	right	right	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	searched	search	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	ccomp	_	_
37	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	among	among	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	reeds	reed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **splash** | participle |  | the baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **crow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with delight | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | past | the baby |  |  |  | then; spring |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **find** | could | baby's mother | baby |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 6 | **search** | past | mother |  |  | the reeds |  | all *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among reed=Location |

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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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