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title: The shark perceived this very clearly, and described greater marvels… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The shark perceived this very clearly, and described greater marvels, and the monkey as he listened grew more and more gloomy. Who acts: shark, friend, monkey. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 41

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The shark perceived this very clearly, and described greater marvels, and the monkey as he listened grew more and more gloomy.

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**Who acts:** shark, friend, monkey · **What happens:** perceive, describe, listen, grow · **To what, where:** this, greater marvels, monkey

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shark, friend, monkey), 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:pg3454:5:41
# text = The shark perceived this very clearly, and described greater marvels, and the monkey as he listened grew more and more gloomy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	described	describe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	marvels	marvel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	monkey	monkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl	_	_
19	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | the shark | this |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **describe** | past |  | greater marvels |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent marvel=Theme |
| 3 | **listen** | past | friend | the monkey *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **grow** | past | the monkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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