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title: “Alas! the fruit is not ripe enough yet for you to eat,” answered th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Alas! the fruit is not ripe enough yet for you to eat,” answered the fox, who hoped that the tortoise would die of hunger long before the seven years were over. Who acts: fruit, you, fox, tortoise. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, wi
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 81

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“Alas! the fruit is not ripe enough yet for you to eat,” answered the fox, who hoped that the tortoise would die of hunger long before the seven years were over.

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**Who acts:** fruit, you, fox, tortoise, seven years · **What happens:** not be, eat, answer, hope, die, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fruit, you, fox, tortoise), 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:pg3282:35:81
# text = “Alas! the fruit is not ripe enough yet for you to eat,” answered the fox, who hoped that the tortoise would die of hunger long before the seven years were over.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	ripe	ripe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
9	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
17	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
31	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
35	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	over	over	ADV	RB	_	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | the fruit |  |  |  | yet | enough, ripe *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hope** | past | the fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **die** | would | the tortoise |  |  |  |  | of hunger; long *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
| 6 | **is** | past | the seven years |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |

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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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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