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title: The old man also gave him a silver apple out of which came the most… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man also gave him a silver apple out of which came the most beautiful hussars and a silver staff; and a copper apple from which he could draw as many foot soldiers as ever he wished, and a copper staff. Who acts: old man, silver apple, Man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 34

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The old man also gave him a silver apple out of which came the most beautiful hussars and a silver staff; and a copper apple from which he could draw as many foot soldiers as ever he wished, and a copper staff.

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**Who acts:** old man, silver apple, Man · **What happens:** give, come, draw, wish · **To what, where:** silver apple, horse, beautiful hussars, many foot soldiers, copper apple

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, silver apple, Man), 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:pg2435:3:34
# text = The old man also gave him a silver apple out of which came the most beautiful hussars and a silver staff; and a copper apple from which he could draw as many foot soldiers as ever he wished, and a copper staff.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hussars	hussar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
32	as	as	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
36	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	39	advmod	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the old man | a silver apple | horse |  |  | a copper apple and a copper staff *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient apple=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | a silver apple | the beautiful hussars and a silver staff |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hussar=Theme |
| 3 | **draw** | could | Man | many foot soldiers |  | a copper apple and a copper staff |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme from which=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **wish** | past | Man |  |  |  | ever |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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