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title: The tree quivered in all its branches so much, that one of the candl… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The tree quivered in all its branches so much, that one of the candles caught the green, and singed it. Who acts: tree. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 73

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The tree quivered in all its branches so much, that one of the candles caught the green, and singed it.

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**Who acts:** tree · **What happens:** quiver, catch, singe · **To what, where:** tree, branches, one, glitter

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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 (tree), 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:pg5615:11:73
# text = The tree quivered in all its branches so much, that one of the candles caught the green, and singed it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
3	quivered	quiver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	candles	candle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
16	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	singed	singe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quiver** | participle |  | the tree *not said here* |  | glitter's branches |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location |
| 2 | **catch** | past | the tree | one |  |  |  | of the candles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent green=Theme |
| 3 | **singe** | past | the tree *not said here* | glitter |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=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 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.

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