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title: I went up to the tree beneath which stood the fountain, and filling… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I went up to the tree beneath which stood the fountain, and filling the silver bowl with water, emptied it on the marble slab. Who acts: I, tree. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 51

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I went up to the tree beneath which stood the fountain, and filling the silver bowl with water, emptied it on the marble slab.

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**Who acts:** I, tree · **What happens:** go up, stand, fill, empty · **To what, where:** fountain, silver bowl, marble slab

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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 (I, tree), 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:pg3454:30:51
# text = I went up to the tree beneath which stood the fountain, and filling the silver bowl with water, emptied it on the marble slab.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	filling	fill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	marble	marble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	slab	slab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | past | I |  |  |  |  | to the tree | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the tree | the fountain |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fountain=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fill** | gerund | I *not said here* | the silver bowl |  |  |  | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bowl=Patient with water=Instrument |
| 4 | **empty** | past | I *not said here* | Fountain |  | the marble slab |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent it=Source |

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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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