--- title: ‘We were driving through the forest, and we saw a pike up in the top… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘We were driving through the forest, and we saw a pike up in the top of a tree----’ Who acts: We. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/99/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/) / 99 # The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 99 ‘We were driving through the forest, and we saw a pike up in the top of a tree----’ **Who acts:** We · **What happens:** drive, see up · **To what, where:** forest, pike, top 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 (We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:16:99 # text = ‘We were driving through the forest, and we saw a pike up in the top of a tree----’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 driving drive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pike pike NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ---- ---- PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drive** | past · progressive | We | | | the forest | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through forest=Trajectory | | 2 | **see up** | past | we | a pike | | the top of a tree | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pike=Stimulus | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/100/) - ↑ back to [How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/16/)