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title: Trembling with fright, Thakane returned to the tree, and struck it a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Trembling with fright, Thakane returned to the tree, and struck it a sharp blow with the axe. Who acts: Thakane. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 57

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Trembling with fright, Thakane returned to the tree, and struck it a sharp blow with the axe.

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**Who acts:** Thakane · **What happens:** tremble, return, strike · **To what, where:** fright

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thakane), 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:pg3282:15:57
# text = Trembling with fright, Thakane returned to the tree, and struck it a sharp blow with the axe.
1	Trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	Thakane	Thakane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **tremble** | gerund | Thakane *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fright | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | Thakane |  |  |  |  | to the tree *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result |
| 3 | **strike** | past | Thakane *not said here* | fright |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent it=Patient blow=Result |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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