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title: At length his eyes fell on the apple, which all this while he had be… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length his eyes fell on the apple, which all this while he had been holding in his hand, and in his thirst he forgot what the hermit had told him, and instead of eating merely his own half, he ate up the old woman’s also; after that he went to sleep. Who acts: eyes, apple, hermit. A sentence of «
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 93

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At length his eyes fell on the apple, which all this while he had been holding in his hand, and in his thirst he forgot what the hermit had told him, and instead of eating merely his own half, he ate up the old woman’s also; after that he went to sleep.

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**Who acts:** eyes, apple, hermit · **What happens:** fall, hold, forget, tell, eat, eat up · **To what, where:** length, hand, thirst, hermit, tongue, own half · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, apple, hermit), 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:pg2435:9:93
# text = At length his eyes fell on the apple, which all this while he had been holding in his hand, and in his thirst he forgot what the hermit had told him, and instead of eating merely his own half, he ate up the old woman’s also; after that he went to sleep.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
12	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nmod	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
17	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	27	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
39	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
46	up	up	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
51	also	also	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
54	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
56	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
57	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
58	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | hermit's eyes |  |  | length |  | on the apple | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location |
| 2 | **hold** | past · perfect · progressive | the apple |  |  | hermit's hand |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
| 3 | **forget** | past | hermit |  |  | hermit's thirst |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the hermit | tongue |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
| 5 | **eat** | gerund | hermit *not said here* | hermit's own half |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient |
| 6 | **eat up** | past | hermit |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go** | past | hermit |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **thirst** |  | hermit |  |  |  |  |  | nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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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