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title: The fiddler was with her, and fiddled so finely that Ahti and Wellam… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fiddler was with her, and fiddled so finely that Ahti and Wellamos and all the sea’s daughters rose to the surface of the water to listen to the music. Who acts: fiddler, daughters. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 56

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The fiddler was with her, and fiddled so finely that Ahti and Wellamos and all the sea’s daughters rose to the surface of the water to listen to the music.

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**Who acts:** fiddler, daughters · **What happens:** be, fiddle, rise, listen · **To what, where:** surface

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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 (fiddler, daughters), 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:pg3454:24:56
# text = The fiddler was with her, and fiddled so finely that Ahti and Wellamos and all the sea’s daughters rose to the surface of the water to listen to the music.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fiddler	fiddler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fiddled	fiddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
12	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Wellamos	Wellamos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
20	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fiddler |  |  |  |  | with Maie | tree rules |
| 2 | **fiddle** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rise** | past | Ahti and Wellamos and all sea's daughters |  |  | the surface of the water |  | finely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Ahti and Wellamos and all sea's daughters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the music | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme |

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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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