--- title: Oh, why did Eve pluck the fruit from the tree of knowledge? why did… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Oh, why did Eve pluck the fruit from the tree of knowledge? why did Adam eat the forbidden fruit?" thought the king's son: "if I had been there it would never have happened, and there would have been no sin in the world." Who acts: Eve, Adam, I, it. 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C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eve, Adam, I, it), 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:pg27200:140:5 # text = Oh, why did Eve pluck the fruit from the tree of knowledge? why did Adam eat the forbidden fruit?" thought the king's son: "if I had been there it would never have happened, and there would have been no sin in the world." 1 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 Eve Eve PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 15 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 18 advmod _ _ 16 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 Adam Adam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 forbidden forbid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 amod _ _ 21 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ? ? PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ 24 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 30 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 cop _ _ 35 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 ccomp _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 39 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 aux _ _ 40 happened happen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 35 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 43 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 48 expl _ _ 44 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 45 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 48 aux _ _ 46 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 48 cop _ _ 47 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 48 det _ _ 48 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 ccomp _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pluck** | past · do-support | Eve | the fruit | | the tree of knowledge | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme from tree=Source | | 2 | **eat** | past · do-support | Adam | the forbidden fruit | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 3 | **forbid** | participle | | | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | | the king's son | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent son=Attribute clause=Theme | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I | | | | | there *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **happen** | would · perfect | it | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is a** | would · perfect | | no sin | | the world; there | | | tree rules | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/6/) - ↑ back to [The Garden of Paradise](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/140/)