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title: He rules over all fish and animals of the deep; he has the finest co… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He rules over all fish and animals of the deep; he has the finest cows and the swiftest horses that ever chewed grass at the bottom of the ocean. Who acts: Ahti. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 67

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He rules over all fish and animals of the deep; he has the finest cows and the swiftest horses that ever chewed grass at the bottom of the ocean.

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**Who acts:** Ahti · **What happens:** have, chew · **To what, where:** finest cows, swiftest horses, bottom

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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 (Ahti), 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:pg3454:23:67
# text = He rules over all fish and animals of the deep; he has the finest cows and the swiftest horses that ever chewed grass at the bottom of the ocean.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	chewed	chew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Ahti | the finest cows and the swiftest horses |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient |
| 2 | **chew** | participle · passive |  | the swiftest horses |  | the bottom of the ocean | ever |  | tree rules |

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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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