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title: ‘And on the tree are five great bunches, and each bunch I will give… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And on the tree are five great bunches, and each bunch I will give to a separate nation, for the nations in the town are five. Who acts: tree, I, bunch. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 79

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‘And on the tree are five great bunches, and each bunch I will give to a separate nation, for the nations in the town are five.

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**Who acts:** tree, I, bunch · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** five great bunches, bunch, separate nation, five

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, I, bunch), 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:pg641:29:79
# text = ‘And on the tree are five great bunches, and each bunch I will give to a separate nation, for the nations in the town are five.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bunches	bunch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	separate	separate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
29	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the tree | five great bunches |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | future | I | each bunch *not said here* | a separate nation |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bunch=Theme to nation=Recipient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | each bunch | five |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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