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title: As he was passing the long line of stones, he saw Bernez working wit… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he was passing the long line of stones, he saw Bernez working with a chisel on the tallest of them all. Who acts: sun, Bernez. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 94

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As he was passing the long line of stones, he saw Bernez working with a chisel on the tallest of them all.

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**Who acts:** sun, Bernez · **What happens:** pass, see, work · **To what, where:** long line, Bernez

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Bernez), 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:pg3454:25:94
# text = As he was passing the long line of stones, he saw Bernez working with a chisel on the tallest of them all.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	working	work	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	chisel	chisel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	tallest	tall	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · progressive | sun | the long line of stones |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme line=Trajectory |
| 2 | **see** | past | sun | Bernez |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **work** | gerund | Bernez *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a chisel; on the tallest of Bernez | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chisel=Co-Agent on tall=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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