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title: The fruit trees were hung with golden and rosy apples, and nightinga… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The fruit trees were hung with golden and rosy apples, and nightingales sang in every bush, as the gnome and the princess wandered in the leafy alleys, sometimes gazing at the moon, sometimes pausing to gather the rarest flowers for her adornment. Who acts: nightingales, gnome. A sentence of «The Br
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 33

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The fruit trees were hung with golden and rosy apples, and nightingales sang in every bush, as the gnome and the princess wandered in the leafy alleys, sometimes gazing at the moon, sometimes pausing to gather the rarest flowers for her adornment.

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**Who acts:** nightingales, gnome · **What happens:** hang, sing, wander, gaze, pause, gather · **To what, where:** fruit trees, bush, leafy alleys, rarest flowers

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nightingales, gnome), 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:pg3282:31:33
# text = The fruit trees were hung with golden and rosy apples, and nightingales sang in every bush, as the gnome and the princess wandered in the leafy alleys, sometimes gazing at the moon, sometimes pausing to gather the rarest flowers for her adornment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rosy	rosy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	nightingales	nightingale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gnome	gnome	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	leafy	leafy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	alleys	alley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	32	advmod	_	_
32	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
38	pausing	pause	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	rarest	rare	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	43	amod	_	_
43	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	adornment	adornment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · passive |  | the fruit trees |  |  |  | with golden apples | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with apple=Instrument |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | nightingales |  |  | every bush |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bush=Location |
| 3 | **wander** | past | the gnome and the princess |  |  | the leafy alleys |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in alley=Trajectory |
| 4 | **gaze** | gerund | the gnome and the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the moon; sometimes *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme |
| 5 | **pause** | gerund | the gnome and the princess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sometimes *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **gather** | to-infinitive | the gnome and the princess *not said here* | the rarest flowers |  |  |  | for princess's adornment | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent flower=Theme for adornment=Beneficiary |

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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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