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title: At each side of the bridge trees were growing, from whose branches h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At each side of the bridge trees were growing, from whose branches hung golden and silver apples, among which birds of Paradise perched. Who acts: bridge trees, birds. 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 128

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At each side of the bridge trees were growing, from whose branches hung golden and silver apples, among which birds of Paradise perched.

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**Who acts:** bridge trees, birds · **What happens:** grow, hang, perch · **To what, where:** golden apples, side

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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: who acts (bridge trees, birds), 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:pg640:33:128
# text = At each side of the bridge trees were growing, from whose branches hung golden and silver apples, among which birds of Paradise perched.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
14	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obl	_	_
22	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Paradise	Paradise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	perched	perch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past · progressive | the bridge trees |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hang** | past |  | golden apples |  | each side |  | from branches | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at side=Destination |
| 3 | **perch** | past | birds of Paradise |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among which=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 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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