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title: So the boy got up and picked some of the ripest pears and put them i… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the boy got up and picked some of the ripest pears and put them into a rush basket. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 45

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So the boy got up and picked some of the ripest pears and put them into a rush basket.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** get up, pick, put · **To what, where:** some, pears, rush basket

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg2435:25:45
# text = So the boy got up and picked some of the ripest pears and put them into a rush basket.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	ripest	ripe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get up** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **pick** | past | the boy *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | the boy *not said here* | pears *= pear* |  | a rush basket |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal |

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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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