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title: ‘Now I shall live,’ thought the tree joyfully, stretching out its br… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Now I shall live,’ thought the tree joyfully, stretching out its branches wide; but, alas! they were all withered and yellow; and it was lying in a corner among weeds and nettles. Who acts: I, tree, branches. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, with its
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 1

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‘Now I shall live,’ thought the tree joyfully, stretching out its branches wide; but, alas! they were all withered and yellow; and it was lying in a corner among weeds and nettles.

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**Who acts:** I, tree, branches · **What happens:** live, think, stretch out, be, lie · **To what, where:** branches, corner

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tree, branches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg5615:1271`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg5615:12:1
# text = ‘Now I shall live,’ thought the tree joyfully, stretching out its branches wide; but, alas! they were all withered and yellow; and it was lying in a corner among weeds and nettles.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	joyfully	joyfully	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	stretching	stretch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	26	discourse	_	_
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	withered	withered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	among	among	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | shall | I |  |  |  | now |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the tree |  |  |  |  | joyfully *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stretch out** | gerund | the tree *not said here* | tree's branches |  |  |  | wide *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent branch=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | branches *= branch* |  |  |  |  | all, withered *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  | branches *= branch* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lie** | past · progressive | tree |  |  | a corner |  | among weeds and nettles | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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