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title: Then suddenly the ground trembled, and the pool, heaving and swirlin… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then suddenly the ground trembled, and the pool, heaving and swirling, became red with blood, and presently the boy rising to the surface swam on shore. Who acts: ground, boy. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 47

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Then suddenly the ground trembled, and the pool, heaving and swirling, became red with blood, and presently the boy rising to the surface swam on shore.

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**Who acts:** ground, boy · **What happens:** tremble, heave, swirl, become, rise, swim · **To what, where:** pool, surface, shore

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ground, boy), 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:pg3027:1:47
# text = Then suddenly the ground trembled, and the pool, heaving and swirling, became red with blood, and presently the boy rising to the surface swam on shore.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	heaving	heave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	swirling	swirl	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
21	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | past | the ground | the pool |  |  | then | suddenly *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pool=Theme |
| 2 | **heave** | gerund | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swirl** | gerund | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | past | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  | red *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **rise** | gerund | the boy *not said here* |  |  | the surface |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **swim** | past | the boy |  |  | shore |  | presently *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shore=Trajectory |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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