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title: She was to give him half the rice in exchange for the kernel of a sw… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She was to give him half the rice in exchange for the kernel of a sweet red kaki fruit which he had just eaten. Who acts: pilgrim, sweet red kaki fruit. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 65

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She was to give him half the rice in exchange for the kernel of a sweet red kaki fruit which he had just eaten.

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**Who acts:** pilgrim, sweet red kaki fruit · **What happens:** give, eat · **To what, where:** rice, Monkey, exchange

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pilgrim, sweet red kaki fruit), 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:pg2435:32:65
# text = She was to give him half the rice in exchange for the kernel of a sweet red kaki fruit which he had just eaten.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	8	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rice	rice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	exchange	exchange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	kernel	kernel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	kaki	kaki	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	just	just	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | pilgrim | half rice | Monkey | exchange for the kernel of a sweet red kaki fruit |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rice=Theme |
| 2 | **eat** | past · perfect | a sweet red kaki fruit |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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