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title: And the tapers burnt low on the branches, and were put out one by on… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the tapers burnt low on the branches, and were put out one by one, and then the children were given permission to plunder the tree. Who acts: tapers. 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 82

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And the tapers burnt low on the branches, and were put out one by one, and then the children were given permission to plunder the tree.

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**Who acts:** tapers · **What happens:** burnt, put out, give, plunder · **To what, where:** branches, one, children, tree

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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 (tapers), 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:pg5615:11:82
# text = And the tapers burnt low on the branches, and were put out one by one, and then the children were given permission to plunder the tree.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tapers	taper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burnt	burnt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
24	permission	permission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	plunder	plunder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burnt** | present | the tapers |  |  | the branches |  | low *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **put out** | past · passive | the tapers *not said here* | one |  |  |  | by one | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: one=Theme by one=Destination |
| 3 | **give** | past · passive |  | the children |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient permission=Theme |
| 4 | **plunder** | to-infinitive |  | the tree |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Source |

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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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