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title: They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids. Who acts: Turks, thoughts, princess. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 92

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They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids.

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**Who acts:** Turks, thoughts, princess · **What happens:** be, swim, think · **To what, where:** beautiful dark lakes

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink 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 (Turks, thoughts, princess), 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:pg5615:4:92
# text = They were beautiful dark lakes in which her thoughts swam about like mermaids.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lakes	lake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Turks *= turk* | beautiful dark lakes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swim** | past | princess's thoughts |  |  | beautiful dark lakes |  | like mermaids; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Trajectory |
| 3 | **think** |  | princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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