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title: I was told only the other day that fish will now live and thrive in… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I was told only the other day that fish will now live and thrive in the tree tops and that some wild animals spend their time in the water. Who acts: fish, wild animals. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., with its dependency tre
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# The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 33

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I was told only the other day that fish will now live and thrive in the tree tops and that some wild animals spend their time in the water.

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**Who acts:** fish, wild animals · **What happens:** tell, live, thrive, spend · **To what, where:** I, tree tops, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fish, wild animals), 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:pg641:16:33
# text = I was told only the other day that fish will now live and thrive in the tree tops and that some wild animals spend their time in the water.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	thrive	thrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	spend	spend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | I |  |  | day |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **live** *not said to happen* | future | fish |  |  |  | now |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **thrive** | infinitive | fish *not said here* |  |  | the tree tops |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=Location |
| 4 | **spend** | present | some wild animals |  |  | the water | time |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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