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title: The rock Ahtola became so grand and Maie so grand that all the sea-u… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The rock Ahtola became so grand and Maie so grand that all the sea-urchins and herring were lost in wonderment. Who acts: rock. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 39

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The rock Ahtola became so grand and Maie so grand that all the sea-urchins and herring were lost in wonderment.

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**Who acts:** rock · **What happens:** become, lose · **To what, where:** sea urchins, wonderment

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock), 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:pg3454:24:39
# text = The rock Ahtola became so grand and Maie so grand that all the sea-urchins and herring were lost in wonderment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Ahtola	Ahtola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Maie	Maie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	urchins	urchin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	herring	herring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	wonderment	wonderment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | the rock |  |  |  |  | grand *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **lose** | past · passive |  | all sea urchins and herring |  | wonderment |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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