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title: Speechless and invisible they clung together on the brink, trembling… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Speechless and invisible they clung together on the brink, trembling at the frightful tempest the Prince of the Air had raised in his fury. Who acts: Princesses, frightful tempest, Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 91

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Speechless and invisible they clung together on the brink, trembling at the frightful tempest the Prince of the Air had raised in his fury.

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**Who acts:** Princesses, frightful tempest, Prince · **What happens:** cling, tremble, raise, infuriate · **To what, where:** brink, frightful tempest, Prince, fury

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princesses, frightful tempest, Prince), 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:pg640:17:91
# text = Speechless and invisible they clung together on the brink, trembling at the frightful tempest the Prince of the Air had raised in his fury.
1	Speechless	speechless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	brink	brink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	frightful	frightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Air	Air	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cling** | past | Princesses *= princess* |  |  | the brink |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brink=Location |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | Princesses *= princess* *not said here* |  |  | the frightful tempest |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at tempest=Location |
| 3 | **raise** | past · perfect · passive | the frightful tempest *not said here* | the Prince of the Air |  | Prince's fury |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in fury=Destination |
| 4 | **infuriate** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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