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title: The Tree trembled so in every bough that one of the tapers set fire… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tree trembled so in every bough that one of the tapers set fire to the foliage. Who acts: Tree, one. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 90

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The Tree trembled so in every bough that one of the tapers set fire to the foliage.

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**Who acts:** Tree, one · **What happens:** tremble, set · **To what, where:** bough, fire

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree, one), 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:pg1597:10:90
# text = The Tree trembled so in every bough that one of the tapers set fire to the foliage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	bough	bough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	foliage	foliage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | past | the Tree |  |  | every bough |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bough=Location |
| 2 | **set** | past | one of the tapers | fire |  |  |  | to the foliage | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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