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title: You shall eat the green ones, they are the best and sweetest; and yo… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You shall eat the green ones, they are the best and sweetest; and you can throw the yellow ones down to me. Who acts: You, bridges. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 99

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You shall eat the green ones, they are the best and sweetest; and you can throw the yellow ones down to me.

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**Who acts:** You, bridges · **What happens:** eat, be, throw · **To what, where:** green ones, yellow ones, me

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, bridges), 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:pg3282:36:99
# text = You shall eat the green ones, they are the best and sweetest; and you can throw the yellow ones down to me.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | shall | You | the green ones |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | bridges *= bridge* |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **throw** | can | you | the yellow ones | me |  |  | down *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme to i=Destination |

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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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