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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 31

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The queen burst into tears and wept sore; then amidst her sobs she drew three apples from her pocket and held them out, saying, “My son, take these apples and give heed unto my words.

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**Who acts:** queen, my · **What happens:** burst, weep, draw, hold out, say, take · **To what, where:** tears, three apples, pocket, apples, heed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, my), 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:pg2435:37:31
# text = The queen burst into tears and wept sore; then amidst her sobs she drew three apples from her pocket and held them out, saying, “My son, take these apples and give heed unto my words.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
11	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sobs	sob	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	out	out	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
33	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	34	det	_	_
34	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | the queen |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **weep** | past | the queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sore *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | past | queen | three apples |  | queen's pocket | then | amidst queen's sobs | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold out** | past | queen *not said here* | apples *= apple* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | queen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | My son *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | this apples |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Theme |
| 7 | **give** *in a quote* | present |  | heed |  |  |  | unto my words | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 8 | **sob** |  | queen |  |  |  |  |  | nom sob «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **word** *in a quote* |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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