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title: So she climbed up and broke off a small branch with its silver leave… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So she climbed up and broke off a small branch with its silver leaves and golden fruit without any trouble, and gave it to the knight. Who acts: eye, silver. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, with its dependency tree and the 
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# The Green Fairy Book, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes, sentence 110

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So she climbed up and broke off a small branch with its silver leaves and golden fruit without any trouble, and gave it to the knight.

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**Who acts:** eye, silver · **What happens:** climb up, break off, leave, give · **To what, where:** small branch, branch, knight

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye, silver), 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:pg7277:40:110
# text = So she climbed up and broke off a small branch with its silver leaves and golden fruit without any trouble, and gave it to the knight.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	leaves	leave	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb up** | past | eye |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break off** | past | eye *not said here* | a small branch |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer branch=Patient |
| 3 | **leave** | present | branch's silver |  |  |  |  | without any trouble | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | eye *not said here* | branch | the knight |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to knight=Recipient |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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