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description: And from this drop of blood there sprang up a cherry-tree; and its first leaf was golden, and its second leaf was of richer colour still, and its third leaf was yet another colour, and every leaf upon it was different to the others. Who acts: first leaf, second leaf, third leaf, leaf. A sentence of 
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# Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Story of Unlucky Daniel, sentence 109

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And from this drop of blood there sprang up a cherry-tree; and its first leaf was golden, and its second leaf was of richer colour still, and its third leaf was yet another colour, and every leaf upon it was different to the others.

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**Who acts:** first leaf, second leaf, third leaf, leaf · **What happens:** spring up, be · **To what, where:** cherry tree, drop, colour

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This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Story of Unlucky Daniel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first leaf, second leaf, third leaf, leaf), 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:pg29672:10:109
# text = And from this drop of blood there sprang up a cherry-tree; and its first leaf was golden, and its second leaf was of richer colour still, and its third leaf was yet another colour, and every leaf upon it was different to the others.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	cherry	cherry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
30	still	still	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	35	amod	_	_
35	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
37	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
38	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	39	det	_	_
39	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
42	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nmod	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
47	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spring up** | past |  | a cherry tree |  | this drop of blood |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | drop's first leaf |  |  |  |  | golden *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | drop's second leaf |  |  |  | still | of richer colour | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | drop's third leaf | another colour |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | every leaf upon drop |  |  |  |  | to the others; different *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:** «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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