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title: Round and round the room it ran, round and round they both ran after… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Round and round the room it ran, round and round they both ran after it, knocking down chairs and vases in their efforts to catch the mouse and put it back in the tureen. Who acts: you, mouse, room. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependenc
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 91

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Round and round the room it ran, round and round they both ran after it, knocking down chairs and vases in their efforts to catch the mouse and put it back in the tureen.

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**Who acts:** you, mouse, room · **What happens:** round, run, knock down, catch, put back · **To what, where:** room, chairs, efforts, mouse, tureen

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mouse, room), 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:pg3454:7:91
# text = Round and round the room it ran, round and round they both ran after it, knocking down chairs and vases in their efforts to catch the mouse and put it back in the tureen.
1	Round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	round	round	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	round	round	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	knocking	knock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	vases	vas	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	tureen	tureen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **round** | imperative | you *not said here* | the room |  |  |  | round *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | past | mouse | the room *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location room=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | room |  |  |  | after mouse | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **knock down** | gerund | room *not said here* | chairs and vases |  | room's efforts |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent chair=Theme in effort=Destination |
| 5 | **catch** | to-infinitive | room *not said here* | the mouse |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 6 | **put back** | infinitive | room *not said here* | mouse |  | the tureen |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in tureen=Destination |

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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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