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title: She swooped down upon a big apple-tree, and after shaking some golde… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She swooped down upon a big apple-tree, and after shaking some golden apples from it, she pounced down upon the earth. Who acts: drop. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 70

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She swooped down upon a big apple-tree, and after shaking some golden apples from it, she pounced down upon the earth.

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**Who acts:** drop · **What happens:** swoop down, shake, pounce down · **To what, where:** golden apples, arrival, earth

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drop), 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:pg640:24:70
# text = She swooped down upon a big apple-tree, and after shaking some golden apples from it, she pounced down upon the earth.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swooped	swoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	pounced	pounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swoop down** | past | drop |  |  |  |  | upon a big apple tree; down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund | drop *not said here* | some golden apples |  | arrival |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from it=Trajectory |
| 3 | **pounce down** | past | drop |  |  | the earth |  | down *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Trajectory |

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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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