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title: How delicious it was diving and swimming and floating in the dark fo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: How delicious it was diving and swimming and floating in the dark forest, where the trees were so thick that you could hardly see the sun! Who acts: river, trees, you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 69

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How delicious it was diving and swimming and floating in the dark forest, where the trees were so thick that you could hardly see the sun!

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**Who acts:** river, trees, you · **What happens:** dive, swim, float, be, see · **To what, where:** dark forest, sun

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, trees, you), 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:pg3454:22:69
# text = How delicious it was diving and swimming and floating in the dark forest, where the trees were so thick that you could hardly see the sun!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	diving	dive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	floating	float	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dive** | past · progressive | river |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund | river *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **float** | gerund | river *not said here* |  |  | the dark forest |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Trajectory |
| 4 | **is** | past | the trees |  |  |  |  | thick *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | could | you | the sun |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus |

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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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