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title: Unseen by the Groac’h, Bellah hid it in a pocket of her green coat,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Unseen by the Groac’h, Bellah hid it in a pocket of her green coat, and then followed her hostess into the garden, and to the pond which contained the fish, their sides shining with a thousand different colours. Who acts: Bellah, pond, sides. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 88

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Unseen by the Groac’h, Bellah hid it in a pocket of her green coat, and then followed her hostess into the garden, and to the pond which contained the fish, their sides shining with a thousand different colours.

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**Who acts:** Bellah, pond, sides · **What happens:** hide, follow, contain, shine · **To what, where:** knife, pocket, hostess, garden, fish

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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, pond, sides), 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:pg3454:34:88
# text = Unseen by the Groac’h, Bellah hid it in a pocket of her green coat, and then followed her hostess into the garden, and to the pond which contained the fish, their sides shining with a thousand different colours.
1	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Groac’h	Groac'h	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Bellah	Bellah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hostess	hostess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	_
37	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nummod	_	_
41	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | past | Bellah | knife |  | a pocket of Groac’h's green coat |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in pocket=Location |
| 2 | **follow** | past | Bellah *not said here* | Groac’h's hostess |  | the garden | then |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hostess=Theme into garden=Trajectory |
| 3 | **contain** | past | the pond | the fish and gardens's sides |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot fish=Theme |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund | gardens's sides *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with thousand different colours | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with colour=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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