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title: As they came back, Michael gathered a branch from the wood with the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As they came back, Michael gathered a branch from the wood with the gold-spangled leaves, and now it was the eldest Princess who heard the noise that it made in breaking. Who acts: boats, Michael, branch, eldest Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princess
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, sentence 110

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As they came back, Michael gathered a branch from the wood with the gold-spangled leaves, and now it was the eldest Princess who heard the noise that it made in breaking.

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**Who acts:** boats, Michael, branch, eldest Princess · **What happens:** come back, gather, spangle, be, hear, make · **To what, where:** branch, wood, eldest Princess, noise, breaking · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boats, Michael, branch, eldest Princess), 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:pg540:2:110
# text = As they came back, Michael gathered a branch from the wood with the gold-spangled leaves, and now it was the eldest Princess who heard the noise that it made in breaking.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Michael	Michael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	spangled	spangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	breaking	breaking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come back** | past | boats *= boat* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gather** | past | Michael | a branch |  | the wood with the spangled leaves and the eldest Princess |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent branch=Theme from wood=Source |
| 3 | **spangle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | branch | the eldest Princess |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | past | the eldest Princess | the noise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | past | branch |  |  | breaking |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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