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title: But just as she got to the river she saw the two lovers in each othe… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But just as she got to the river she saw the two lovers in each other’s arms swimming through the water as easily as two fishes. Who acts: daughter, arms. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 33

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But just as she got to the river she saw the two lovers in each other’s arms swimming through the water as easily as two fishes.

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**Who acts:** daughter, arms · **What happens:** get, see, swim · **To what, where:** two lovers, water

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (daughter, arms), 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:pg640:26:33
# text = But just as she got to the river she saw the two lovers in each other’s arms swimming through the water as easily as two fishes.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
19	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | to the river *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to river=Result |
| 2 | **see** | past | daughter | the two lovers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **swim** | gerund | each other's arms *not said here* |  |  | the water |  | easily *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Trajectory |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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