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description: It wandered peacefully up and down the shore, and never so much as even looked at the poor little tufts of grass, as if it despised such fare. Who acts: door. 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 clau
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 5

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It wandered peacefully up and down the shore, and never so much as even looked at the poor little tufts of grass, as if it despised such fare.

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**Who acts:** door · **What happens:** wander, look, despise · **To what, where:** shore, such fare

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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 (door), 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:pg3454:24:5
# text = It wandered peacefully up and down the shore, and never so much as even looked at the poor little tufts of grass, as if it despised such fare.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tufts	tuft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fare	fare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	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 | **wander** | past | door |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down shore=Trajectory |
| 2 | **look** | past | door *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the poor little tufts of grass | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tuft=Theme |
| 3 | **despise** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | door | such fare |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fare=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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