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title: They were all gathered round the heap of pink cushions on which the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They were all gathered round the heap of pink cushions on which the baby lay asleep, when a shadow seemed to fall between them and the sun, while a cold wind blew through the room. Who acts: baby, shadow, cold wind. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22, with its dep
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 61

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They were all gathered round the heap of pink cushions on which the baby lay asleep, when a shadow seemed to fall between them and the sun, while a cold wind blew through the room.

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**Who acts:** baby, shadow, cold wind · **What happens:** gather, lie, seem, fall, blow · **To what, where:** fairies, pink cushions, room

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (baby, shadow, cold wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3027:1409`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3027:22:61
# text = They were all gathered round the heap of pink cushions on which the baby lay asleep, when a shadow seemed to fall between them and the sun, while a cold wind blew through the room.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	round	round	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cushions	cushion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	between	between	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
35	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past · passive |  | fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  | round the heap of pink cushions; all *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the baby |  |  | pink cushions |  | asleep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
| 3 | **seem** | past | a shadow |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **fall** | to-infinitive | a shadow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | between fairies *= fairy* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between they=Location |
| 5 | **blow** | past | a cold wind |  |  | the room |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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