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title: At that he rose to his feet, and gathering up his strength mightily,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At that he rose to his feet, and gathering up his strength mightily, he seized the chain, and this time he shook it so that three links broke. Who acts: man, three links. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 7

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At that he rose to his feet, and gathering up his strength mightily, he seized the chain, and this time he shook it so that three links broke.

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**Who acts:** man, three links · **What happens:** rise, gather up, seize, shake, break · **To what, where:** that, strength, chain

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, three links), 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:pg3027:5:7
# text = At that he rose to his feet, and gathering up his strength mightily, he seized the chain, and this time he shook it so that three links broke.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	mightily	mightily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	links	link	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | man |  |  | that |  | to man's feet | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at that=Location |
| 2 | **gather up** | gerund | man *not said here* | man's strength |  |  |  | mightily *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme |
| 3 | **seize** | past | man | the chain |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Theme |
| 4 | **shake** | past | man | chain |  |  | time |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **break** | past | three links |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: 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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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