--- title: At last, however, the bride’s sister rolled an apple across the yard… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last, however, the bride’s sister rolled an apple across the yard to him, and said: “As you won’t eat anything else, you may like to take a bite of that, for you must be both hungry and thirsty after your long journey.” Who acts: sister, you, your. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sister, you, your), 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:pg503:18:31 # text = At last, however, the bride’s sister rolled an apple across the yard to him, and said: “As you won’t eat anything else, you may like to take a bite of that, for you must be both hungry and thirsty after your long journey.” 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 however however ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 across across ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 As as SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 26 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 28 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 27 obj _ _ 29 else else ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 32 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 46 advcl _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 41 for for SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 46 cop _ _ 45 both both CCONJ CC _ 46 cc:preconj _ _ 46 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 parataxis _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 thirsty thirsty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 conj _ _ 49 after after ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 51 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ” " PUNCT '' _ 33 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | past | the bride's sister | a apple | giant | last | | across the yard; however *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent apple=Theme at last=Trajectory across yard=Initial\_Location to he=Destination | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **not** **eat** *in a quote* | future | you | anything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 4 | **like** *in a quote* | may | you | | | | after your long journey | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | a bite of that | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | hungry *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **be** *in a quote* | | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **bite** *in a quote* | | | that | | | | | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **journey** *in a quote* | | your | | | | | | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/32/) - ↑ back to [The Master-maid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/)