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title: ‘Are you there?’ cried the shark, who was soon tired of swimming abo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Are you there?’ cried the shark, who was soon tired of swimming about under the cliff, and was in haste to be gone. Who acts: you, shark. 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 clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 78

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‘Are you there?’ cried the shark, who was soon tired of swimming about under the cliff, and was in haste to be gone.

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**Who acts:** you, shark · **What happens:** be, cry, swim, go · **To what, where:** shark, haste

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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 (you, shark), 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:pg3454:5:78
# text = ‘Are you there?’ cried the shark, who was soon tired of swimming about under the cliff, and was in haste to be gone.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the shark |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the shark |  |  |  |  | soon, tired *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **swim** | gerund | the shark *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the cliff | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about cliff=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  | haste |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V» |

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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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