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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 53

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Now the window in the room of the eldest overlooked the gardens of the king, and when she saw how fine and ripe the medlars were on the trees, she longed to eat some, and begged Maria to scramble down by a rope and pick her a few, and she would draw her up again.

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**Who acts:** eldest, Maria, medlars · **What happens:** overlook, see, ripe, be, long, eat · **To what, where:** gardens, fine, trees, some, Maria, few

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, Maria, medlars), 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:pg2435:38:53
# text = Now the window in the room of the eldest overlooked the gardens of the king, and when she saw how fine and ripe the medlars were on the trees, she longed to eat some, and begged Maria to scramble down by a rope and pick her a few, and she would draw her up again.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	_
10	overlooked	overlook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	ripe	ripe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	medlars	medlar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	longed	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
40	Maria	Maria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	scramble	scramble	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
43	down	down	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	conj	_	_
49	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	obj	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	conj	_	_
57	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	up	up	ADP	RP	_	56	compound:prt	_	_
59	again	again	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overlook** | past | the eldest | the gardens of the king |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | Maria | fine |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fine=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ripe** | infinitive | Maria *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the medlars |  |  | the trees |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **long** | past | Maria |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 6 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Maria *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 7 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Maria *not said here* |  | Maria |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent maria=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **scramble down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Maria *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by a rope | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rope=Trajectory |
| 9 | **pick** | infinitive | Maria *not said here* | a few | Maria |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary few=Theme |
| 10 | **draw up** | would | Maria | sister |  |  | again |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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