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title: When at last he gave up the quest his knees trembled beneath him for… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When at last he gave up the quest his knees trembled beneath him for very weariness, and glad was he to see a tree growing close by lade with fruits of different sorts, of which he ate greedily. Who acts: staff, knees, tree. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30, wit
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 27

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When at last he gave up the quest his knees trembled beneath him for very weariness, and glad was he to see a tree growing close by lade with fruits of different sorts, of which he ate greedily.

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**Who acts:** staff, knees, tree · **What happens:** give up, tremble, see, grow, lade, eat · **To what, where:** quest, last, tree

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (staff, knees, tree), 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:pg3027:30:27
# text = When at last he gave up the quest his knees trembled beneath him for very weariness, and glad was he to see a tree growing close by lade with fruits of different sorts, of which he ate greedily.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	very	very	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	weariness	weariness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	lade	lade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	obl	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
40	greedily	greedily	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give up** | past | staff | the quest |  | last |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quest=Source |
| 2 | **tremble** | past | staff's knees |  |  |  |  | beneath staff; for weariness | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath he=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | staff | a tree |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | a tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | close *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **lade** | infinitive | a tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fruits of different sorts | tree rules |
| 6 | **eat** | past | staff |  |  |  |  | greedily *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of which=Source |

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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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