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title: By-and-bye they entered a wood, and right in front of them was a tre… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: By-and-bye they entered a wood, and right in front of them was a tree so laden with fruit that its branches swept the ground. Who acts: rocks, tree, branches. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 3, sentence 86

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By-and-bye they entered a wood, and right in front of them was a tree so laden with fruit that its branches swept the ground.

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**Who acts:** rocks, tree, branches · **What happens:** enter, be, lade, sweep · **To what, where:** wood, tree, fruit, ground

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rocks, tree, branches), 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:pg3027:3:86
# text = By-and-bye they entered a wood, and right in front of them was a tree so laden with fruit that its branches swept the ground.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	bye	bye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	csubj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	advcl	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | rocks *= rock* | a wood |  |  |  | by bye | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination |
| 2 | **is a** | past | rocks *= rock* *not said here* | a tree |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lade** | participle | a tree *not said here* | fruit |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sweep** | past | fruit's branches | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=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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