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title: It did not take him long to reach them, for they had stopped to rest… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It did not take him long to reach them, for they had stopped to rest in a green pool shaded by a tree whose branches swept the water. Who acts: It, syringas, branches. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 9, sentence 110

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It did not take him long to reach them, for they had stopped to rest in a green pool shaded by a tree whose branches swept the water.

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**Who acts:** It, syringas, branches · **What happens:** not take, reach, stop, rest, shade, sweep · **To what, where:** bird, syringas, green pool, water

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, syringas, 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:pg3027:9:110
# text = It did not take him long to reach them, for they had stopped to rest in a green pool shaded by a tree whose branches swept the water.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	stopped	stop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	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	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **take** | past · do-support | It |  | bird |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 2 | **reach** | to-infinitive |  | syringas *= syringa* |  |  |  | long *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | past · perfect | syringas *= syringa* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | syringas *= syringa* *not said here* |  |  | a green pool |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pool=Location |
| 5 | **shade** | participle |  | a green pool *not said here* |  |  |  | by a tree | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **sweep** | past | branches | the water |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=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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