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title: It is needless to say that for some days he took no more apples back… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It is needless to say that for some days he took no more apples back to the palace, but kept well away on the other side of the town, wearing other clothes, and disguised by a long black beard, so that even his own mother would not have known him. Who acts: It, Tiidu. A sentence of «The Crimson Fair
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 40

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It is needless to say that for some days he took no more apples back to the palace, but kept well away on the other side of the town, wearing other clothes, and disguised by a long black beard, so that even his own mother would not have known him.

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**Who acts:** It, Tiidu · **What happens:** be, say, take, keep, wear, disguise · **To what, where:** that, more apples, palace, other side, other clothes, own mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Tiidu), 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:pg2435:12:40
# text = It is needless to say that for some days he took no more apples back to the palace, but kept well away on the other side of the town, wearing other clothes, and disguised by a long black beard, so that even his own mother would not have known him.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	needless	needless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	csubj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
12	no	no	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	amod	_	_
14	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	disguised	disguise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
38	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
41	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
44	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	53	mark	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	fixed	_	_
46	even	even	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
50	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	53	advmod	_	_
52	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	aux	_	_
53	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
54	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | It |  |  |  |  | needless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | Tiidu | more apples |  | the palace | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent apple=Theme to palace=Destination |
| 4 | **keep** | past | Tiidu *not said here* |  |  | the other side of the town |  | away *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location |
| 5 | **wear** | gerund | Tiidu *not said here* | other clothes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
| 6 | **disguise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a long black beard | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **not** **know** | would · perfect · passive |  | Tiidu's own mother |  |  |  |  | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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