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title: Dip the bowl in the fountain, and throw the water on the slab, and t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Dip the bowl in the fountain, and throw the water on the slab, and thou wilt hear a might peal of thunder, till heaven and earth seem trembling with the noise. Who acts: you, thou, heaven, thunder. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependenc
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 42

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Dip the bowl in the fountain, and throw the water on the slab, and thou wilt hear a might peal of thunder, till heaven and earth seem trembling with the noise.

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**Who acts:** you, thou, heaven, thunder · **What happens:** dip, throw, hear, seem, tremble, peal · **To what, where:** bowl, fountain, water, slab, peal

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, heaven, thunder), 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:pg3454:30:42
# text = Dip the bowl in the fountain, and throw the water on the slab, and thou wilt hear a might peal of thunder, till heaven and earth seem trembling with the noise.
1	Dip	dip	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	slab	slab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	parataxis	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	peal	peal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
31	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** | imperative | you *not said here* | the bowl |  | the fountain |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme in fountain=Trajectory |
| 2 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the water |  | the slab |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme on slab=Destination |
| 3 | **hear** | future | thou | a peal of thunder |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer peal=Stimulus |
| 4 | **seem** | present | heaven and earth |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **tremble** | gerund | heaven and earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the noise | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **peal** |  | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | nom peal «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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