--- title: The husband tried to persuade her to eat all sorts of delicious frui… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The husband tried to persuade her to eat all sorts of delicious fruits that he had found in the forest, but she would have none of them, and grew so thin he feared she would die. Who acts: husband, woman. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, woman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:29:30 # text = The husband tried to persuade her to eat all sorts of delicious fruits that he had found in the forest, but she would have none of them, and grew so thin he feared she would die. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 persuade persuade VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 9 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 det _ _ 10 sorts sort NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 delicious delicious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 found find VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 26 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 25 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | the husband | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **persuade** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the husband *not said here* | woman | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | all sorts of delicious fruits | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Patient | | 4 | **find** | past · perfect | husband | delicious fruits *not said here* | | the forest | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Topic | | 5 | **have** | would | woman | none | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient | | 6 | **grow** | past | the husband *not said here* | | | | | thin *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **fear** | past | husband | | | | | | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **die** | would | woman | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 9 | **sort** | | | delicious fruits | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/29/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/29/31/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/29/)