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title: And the river flowed round the castle, and on its banks slept lions… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the river flowed round the castle, and on its banks slept lions with iron teeth and claws; and beyond were gardens such as only the Fairy of the Dawn can have, and on the flowers slept a fairy! Who acts: river, gardens. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn,
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 97

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And the river flowed round the castle, and on its banks slept lions with iron teeth and claws; and beyond were gardens such as only the Fairy of the Dawn can have, and on the flowers slept a fairy!

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**Who acts:** river, gardens · **What happens:** flow, sleep, be, have · **To what, where:** lions, banks, gardens, fairy, flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, gardens), 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:pg641:21:97
# text = And the river flowed round the castle, and on its banks slept lions with iron teeth and claws; and beyond were gardens such as only the Fairy of the Dawn can have, and on the flowers slept a fairy!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flowed	flow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
13	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	beyond	beyond	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
25	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Dawn	Dawn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
40	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flow** | past | the river |  |  |  |  | round the castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sleep** | past | the river *not said here* | lions |  | river's banks |  | with iron teeth and claws | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | gardens |  |  |  | beyond *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | can | gardens |  |  |  |  | such the Fairy of the Dawn | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **sleep** | past | the river *not said here* | a fairy |  | the flowers |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme |

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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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