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title: As she drew near the pond she saw a great procession of fishes advan… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As she drew near the pond she saw a great procession of fishes advancing to meet her, crying in hoarse tones: Who acts: Bellah, fishes. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 101

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As she drew near the pond she saw a great procession of fishes advancing to meet her, crying in hoarse tones:

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**Who acts:** Bellah, fishes · **What happens:** draw, see, advance, meet, cry, proceed · **To what, where:** pond, great procession, Bellah, hoarse tones

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bellah, fishes), 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:pg3454:34:101
# text = As she drew near the pond she saw a great procession of fishes advancing to meet her, crying in hoarse tones:
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	near	near	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tones	tone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Bellah |  |  | the pond |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | Bellah | a great procession of fishes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer procession=Stimulus |
| 3 | **advance** | gerund | fishes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promote-102 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | fishes *not said here* | Bellah |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | fishes *not said here* |  |  | hoarse tones |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location |
| 6 | **proceed** |  | fishes |  |  |  |  |  | nom procession «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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