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title: He next took the three apples out of his pocket and placed them all… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He next took the three apples out of his pocket and placed them all in the prettiest places he could find; after which he tapped them with his golden rod, and they became castles again. Who acts: Paul, apples. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, wi
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 9

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He next took the three apples out of his pocket and placed them all in the prettiest places he could find; after which he tapped them with his golden rod, and they became castles again.

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**Who acts:** Paul, apples · **What happens:** take, place, find, tap, become · **To what, where:** three apples, pocket, apples, prettiest places, castles

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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 (Paul, apples), 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:pg2435:32:9
# text = He next took the three apples out of his pocket and placed them all in the prettiest places he could find; after which he tapped them with his golden rod, and they became castles again.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	next	next	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nmod:unmarked	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	after	after	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	tapped	tap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
27	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
36	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	xcomp	_	_
37	again	again	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Paul | the three apples |  | Paul's pocket |  | next *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme out pocket=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **place** | past | Paul *not said here* | apples *= apple* |  | the prettiest places |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in place=Destination |
| 3 | **find** | could | Paul | the prettiest places *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
| 4 | **tap** | past | Paul | apples *= apple* |  |  |  | with Paul's golden rod | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with rod=Instrument |
| 5 | **become** | past | apples *= apple* | castles |  |  | again |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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