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title: Raising himself in his saddle, he gave an order, and half a dozen me… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Raising himself in his saddle, he gave an order, and half a dozen men plunged into the water and drew the chest out on to the river bank, where every one crowded around to see what it could contain. Who acts: Dilaram, dozen men, chest. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac F
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 81

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Raising himself in his saddle, he gave an order, and half a dozen men plunged into the water and drew the chest out on to the river bank, where every one crowded around to see what it could contain.

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**Who acts:** Dilaram, dozen men, chest · **What happens:** raise, give, plunge, draw out, crowd around, see · **To what, where:** Dilaram, saddle, order, water, chest, river bank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dilaram, dozen men, chest), 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:pg3454:4:81
# text = Raising himself in his saddle, he gave an order, and half a dozen men plunged into the water and drew the chest out on to the river bank, where every one crowded around to see what it could contain.
1	Raising	raise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	16	det:predet	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	nmod	_	_
33	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
35	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	around	around	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
39	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	42	obj	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | gerund | Dilaram *not said here* | Dilaram |  | Dilaram's saddle |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in saddle=Destination |
| 2 | **give** | past | Dilaram | a order |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 3 | **plunge** | participle | half dozen men |  |  | the water |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **draw out** | past | half dozen men *not said here* | the chest |  | the river bank |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chest=Theme on bank=Destination |
| 5 | **crowd around** | participle |  | every one *not said here* |  |  |  | around *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 7 | **contain** | could | chest |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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