--- title: On its branches they hung little nets cut out of coloured paper, eac… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On its branches they hung little nets cut out of coloured paper, each full of sugarplums; gilt apples and nuts hung down as if they were growing, over a hundred red, blue, and white tapers were fastened among the branches. Who acts: branches, little nets. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/61/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/) / 61 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 61 On its branches they hung little nets cut out of coloured paper, each full of sugarplums; gilt apples and nuts hung down as if they were growing, over a hundred red, blue, and white tapers were fastened among the branches. **Who acts:** branches, little nets · **What happens:** hang, cut out, hang down, grow, fasten · **To what, where:** little nets, branches, coloured paper, gilt apples, white tapers This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branches, little nets), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:11:61 # text = On its branches they hung little nets cut out of coloured paper, each full of sugarplums; gilt apples and nuts hung down as if they were growing, over a hundred red, blue, and white tapers were fastened among the branches. 1 On on ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 nets net NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 coloured coloured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 paper paper NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 15 det _ _ 15 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sugarplums sugarplum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 gilt gilt ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 apples apple NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 nuts nut NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 23 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 24 down down ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 growing grow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 over over ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 obl _ _ 34 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 tapers taper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 fastened fasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 conj _ _ 43 among among ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 branches branch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | past | branches *= branch* | little nets | | sand's branches | | over a hundred; gilt apples and nuts *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme on branch=Destination | | 2 | **cut out** | participle | little nets *not said here* | coloured paper | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector paper=Eventuality | | 3 | **hang down** | participle | | gilt apples and nuts *not said here* | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | past · progressive | branches *= branch* | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fasten** | past · passive | | white tapers | | | | among the branches | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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. **Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/62/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/11/)