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title: They rushed at each other with such fury that the ground seemed to t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They rushed at each other with such fury that the ground seemed to tremble under them and the whole air to be filled with their cries. Who acts: clothes, ground. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 20

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They rushed at each other with such fury that the ground seemed to tremble under them and the whole air to be filled with their cries.

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**Who acts:** clothes, ground · **What happens:** rush, seem, tremble, fill, cry · **To what, where:** each

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clothes, ground), 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:pg7277:45:20
# text = They rushed at each other with such fury that the ground seemed to tremble under them and the whole air to be filled with their cries.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obl	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	fixed	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	tremble	tremble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	under	under	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | clothes |  |  | each |  | with such fury | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at each=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seem** | past | the ground |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **tremble** | to-infinitive | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  | under clothes | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under they=Location |
| 4 | **fill** | to-infinitive · passive | the ground *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with clothes's cries | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with cry=Instrument |
| 5 | **cry** |  | clothes |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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