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title: And in a moment the branching horns and beautiful shape had vanished… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And in a moment the branching horns and beautiful shape had vanished, and a tiny brown ant, invisible to all who did not look closely, was climbing up the walls. Who acts: branching horns. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 76

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And in a moment the branching horns and beautiful shape had vanished, and a tiny brown ant, invisible to all who did not look closely, was climbing up the walls.

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**Who acts:** branching horns · **What happens:** vanish, not look, climb up · **To what, where:** tiny brown ant, walls

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branching horns), 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:pg3027:25:76
# text = And in a moment the branching horns and beautiful shape had vanished, and a tiny brown ant, invisible to all who did not look closely, was climbing up the walls.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	branching	branching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	ant	ant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	obl	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	climbing	climb	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanish** | past · perfect | the branching horns and beautiful shape | a tiny brown ant |  |  | moment |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **look** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **climb up** | past · progressive | the branching horns and beautiful shape *not said here* | the walls |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location wall=Theme |

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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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