--- title: When they had finished the king’s son drew an apple from his pocket,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When they had finished the king’s son drew an apple from his pocket, and cut it into a big half and a little half, and offered both to the stranger, who took the biggest bit. Who acts: apples, finished son, stranger. 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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 (apples, finished son, stranger), 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:pg2435:37:46 # text = When they had finished the king’s son drew an apple from his pocket, and cut it into a big half and a little half, and offered both to the stranger, who took the biggest bit. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 17 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 30 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 29 obj _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 amod _ _ 39 bit bit NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **finish** | past · perfect | apples *= apple* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **draw** | past | the king's finished son | a apple | | son's pocket | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **cut** | past | | pocket | | a big half and a little half | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into half=Product | | 4 | **offer** | past | | both | | | | to the stranger *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent both=Theme to stranger=Goal | | 5 | **take** | past | the stranger | the biggest bit | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/47/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/37/)