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title: Near the rock was a lion seeking to reach the mound, and each time h… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the rock was a lion seeking to reach the mound, and each time he moved out darted a serpent from the rock to prevent him. Who acts: lion. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 95

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Near the rock was a lion seeking to reach the mound, and each time he moved out darted a serpent from the rock to prevent him.

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**Who acts:** lion · **What happens:** be, seek, reach, move out, dart, prevent · **To what, where:** lion, rock, mound, time, serpent

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion), 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:pg3454:31:95
# text = Near the rock was a lion seeking to reach the mound, and each time he moved out darted a serpent from the rock to prevent him.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	darted	dart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a lion |  | the rock |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | a lion *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a lion *not said here* | the mound |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mound=Theme |
| 4 | **move out** | past | lion | each time *not said here* |  |  |  | out *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent time=Theme |
| 5 | **dart** | participle |  | a serpent |  | the rock | time |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme from rock=Trajectory |
| 6 | **prevent** | to-infinitive |  | lion |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=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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