--- title: There is none may taste of the golden fruit Till the golden new time… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: There is none may taste of the golden fruit Till the golden new time come Many a tree shall spring from shoot, Many a blossom be withered at root, Many a song be dumb; Broken and still shall be many a lute Or ever the new times come! Who acts: none, Many, lute, new times. A sentence of «The Blue Fai --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/73/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/) / 73 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 73 There is none may taste of the golden fruit Till the golden new time come Many a tree shall spring from shoot, Many a blossom be withered at root, Many a song be dumb; Broken and still shall be many a lute Or ever the new times come! **Who acts:** none, Many, lute, new times · **What happens:** be, come, spring, wither, break · **To what, where:** shoot, Many, root This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, Many, lute, new times), 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:pg503:27:73 # text = There is none may taste of the golden fruit Till the golden new time come Many a tree shall spring from shoot, Many a blossom be withered at root, Many a song be dumb; Broken and still shall be many a lute Or ever the new times come! 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 5 nsubj _ _ 4 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 taste taste VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 Till till ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 12 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 nsubj _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 19 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 spring spring NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 shoot shoot NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 blossom blossom NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 withered wither VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 Many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 nsubj _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 36 dumb dumb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 38 Broken break VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 parataxis _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 still still ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 41 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 lute lute NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 46 Or or CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 47 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 51 advmod _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ _ 51 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | may · present | none | | | | time | of the golden fruit; taste *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **come** | infinitive | none *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **spring** | shall | Many | | | shoot | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wither** | infinitive · passive | | Many | | root | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | infinitive | Many | | | | | dumb *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **break** | participle | | | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **is** | shall | a lute | | | | still | many *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **come** | present | the new times | | | | ever | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/74/) - ↑ back to [The Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/)