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title: One day as Matte and his wife were cleaning herring on the shore the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One day as Matte and his wife were cleaning herring on the shore they heard Prince barking, and soon there appeared a gaily painted boat with three young men in it, steering towards the rock. Who acts: One day, Matte, Prince. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book,
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 49

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One day as Matte and his wife were cleaning herring on the shore they heard Prince barking, and soon there appeared a gaily painted boat with three young men in it, steering towards the rock.

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**Who acts:** One day, Matte, Prince · **What happens:** clean, hear, bark, appear, paint, steer · **To what, where:** herring, shore, gaily painted boat, rock

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, Matte, Prince), 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:pg3454:23:49
# text = One day as Matte and his wife were cleaning herring on the shore they heard Prince barking, and soon there appeared a gaily painted boat with three young men in it, steering towards the rock.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Matte	Matte	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	barking	bark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
29	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	steering	steer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
35	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clean** | past · progressive | One day as Matte and husband's wife | herring |  | the shore |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herring=Patient |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Matte | the shore *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bark** | gerund | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **appear** | past | One day as Matte and husband's wife *not said here* | a gaily painted boat |  | there |  | with three young men in boat | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boat=Theme |
| 5 | **paint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **steer** | gerund | One day as Matte and husband's wife *not said here* |  |  | the rock |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards rock=Destination |

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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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