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title: And the princess floated down the mill-stream, sometimes swimming an… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the princess floated down the mill-stream, sometimes swimming and sometimes sinking, till she came near the mill. Who acts: princess. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 63

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And the princess floated down the mill-stream, sometimes swimming and sometimes sinking, till she came near the mill.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** float, swim, sink, come · **To what, where:** mill stream, mill

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg7439:13:63
# text = And the princess floated down the mill-stream, sometimes swimming and sometimes sinking, till she came near the mill.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	floated	float	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	swimming	swim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
20	near	near	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | participle | the princess |  |  | the mill stream |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down stream=Trajectory |
| 2 | **swim** | gerund | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sink** | gerund | the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | past | princess |  |  | the mill |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near mill=Location |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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