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title: As there was a soft breeze blowing, the bushes to which the head was… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As there was a soft breeze blowing, the bushes to which the head was tied moved gently, and the bells rang. Who acts: soft breeze, bells. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 89

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As there was a soft breeze blowing, the bushes to which the head was tied moved gently, and the bells rang.

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**Who acts:** soft breeze, bells · **What happens:** blow, tie, move, be · **To what, where:** bushes, head

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soft breeze, bells), 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:pg2435:26:89
# text = As there was a soft breeze blowing, the bushes to which the head was tied moved gently, and the bells rang.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	blowing	blow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
17	moved	move	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
18	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | gerund | a soft breeze *not said here* | the bushes |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **tie** | past · passive |  | the head |  |  |  | to the bushes | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to which=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **move** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | gently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the bells |  |  |  |  | ring *property* | tree rules |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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