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title: “‘Apricots, peaches, nectarines, cherries, plums, pears, melons, gra… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “‘Apricots, peaches, nectarines, cherries, plums, pears, melons, grapes, apples, oranges, lemons, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, come!’ Who acts: Apricots. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 2, sentence 79

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“‘Apricots, peaches, nectarines, cherries, plums, pears, melons, grapes, apples, oranges, lemons, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, come!’

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**Who acts:** Apricots · **What happens:** come

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, 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 (Apricots), 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:pg503:24:79
# text = “‘Apricots, peaches, nectarines, cherries, plums, pears, melons, grapes, apples, oranges, lemons, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, come!’
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Apricots	apricot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	peaches	peach	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	nectarines	nectarine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	cherries	cherry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	plums	plum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pears	pear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	melons	melon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	grapes	grape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	oranges	orange	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	lemons	lemon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	gooseberries	gooseberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	raspberries	raspberry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
31	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present | Apricots and peaches and nectarines and cherries and plums and pears and melons and grapes and apples and oranges and lemons and gooseberries and strawberries and raspberries |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 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.

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