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title: Trembling with fatigue he sat himself on a rock and broke a piece of… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Trembling with fatigue he sat himself on a rock and broke a piece off his cake. Who acts: blessing. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 102

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Trembling with fatigue he sat himself on a rock and broke a piece off his cake.

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**Who acts:** blessing · **What happens:** tremble, sit, break · **To what, where:** blessing, rock, piece

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blessing), 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:pg3027:29:102
# text = Trembling with fatigue he sat himself on a rock and broke a piece off his cake.
1	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with fatigue | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sit** | past | blessing | blessing |  | a rock |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on rock=Location |
| 3 | **break** | past | blessing *not said here* | a piece |  |  |  | off blessing's cake | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent piece=Patient off cake=Co-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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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