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title: The gold and jewel-dropping ass, is the spring cloud, hanging in the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The gold and jewel-dropping ass, is the spring cloud, hanging in the sky and shedding the bright productive vernal showers. Who acts: gold, spring cloud. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick., sentence 9

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The gold and jewel-dropping ass, is the spring cloud, hanging in the sky and shedding the bright productive vernal showers.

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**Who acts:** gold, spring cloud · **What happens:** drop, be, hang, shed · **To what, where:** spring cloud, sky, bright productive vernal showers

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIX. Ass, Table and Stick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold, spring cloud), 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:pg7439:89:9
# text = The gold and jewel-dropping ass, is the spring cloud, hanging in the sky and shedding the bright productive vernal showers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
4	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	dropping	drop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	amod	_	_
7	ass	ass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hanging	hang	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	shedding	shed	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	productive	productive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	vernal	vernal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the gold and jewel dropping ass | the spring cloud |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hang** | gerund | the spring cloud *not said here* |  |  | the sky |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sky=Location |
| 4 | **shed** | gerund | the spring cloud *not said here* | the bright productive vernal showers |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shower=Source |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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