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title: On each side of the bridge there must be growing trees, having golde… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On each side of the bridge there must be growing trees, having golden and silver apples, and with birds of Paradise among the branches. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 108

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On each side of the bridge there must be growing trees, having golden and silver apples, and with birds of Paradise among the branches.

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**What happens:** be, grow, have · **To what, where:** side, trees, golden apples

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg640:33:108
# text = On each side of the bridge there must be growing trees, having golden and silver apples, and with birds of Paradise among the branches.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
8	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
14	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Paradise	paradise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	among	among	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | must |  |  |  | each side of the bridge; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund |  | trees |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tree=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  | golden apples |  |  |  | with birds of Paradise among the branches | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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 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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