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description: But the time till morning seemed very long, and with the first ray of sun they both rose, and pushed aside the branches of the birch trees. Who acts: time, words. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 55

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But the time till morning seemed very long, and with the first ray of sun they both rose, and pushed aside the branches of the birch trees.

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**Who acts:** time, words · **What happens:** seem, rise, push, ray · **To what, where:** branches, sun

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, words), 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:pg3282:20:55
# text = But the time till morning seemed very long, and with the first ray of sun they both rose, and pushed aside the branches of the birch trees.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	till	till	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
14	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	both	both	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
23	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | the time till morning |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  | with the first ray of sun; both *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **push** | participle | words *= word* *not said here* | the branches of the birch trees |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme |
| 4 | **ray** |  |  | sun |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=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 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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