--- title: Snowdrop longed to eat the tempting fruit, and when she saw that the… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Snowdrop longed to eat the tempting fruit, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating it herself, she couldn’t resist the temptation any longer, and stretching out her hand she took the poisonous half. Who acts: Snowdrop, peasant woman. 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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 (Snowdrop, peasant woman), 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:pg540:47:241 # text = Snowdrop longed to eat the tempting fruit, and when she saw that the peasant woman was eating it herself, she couldn’t resist the temptation any longer, and stretching out her hand she took the poisonous half. 1 Snowdrop Snowdrop PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 longed long VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to PART TO _ 4 mark _ _ 4 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 xcomp _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 tempting tempting NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 peasant peasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 ccomp _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 23 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 24 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 resist resist VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 temptation temptation NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 any any ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 32 stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 33 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 poisonous poisonous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **long** | past | Snowdrop | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **eat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Snowdrop *not said here* | the tempting fruit | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient | | 3 | **see** | past | SNOWDROP | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **eat** | past · progressive | the peasant woman | fruit | | | | woman *obl* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **not** **resist** | could | SNOWDROP | the temptation | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **stretch out** | gerund | SNOWDROP *not said here* | woman's hand | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | | 7 | **take** | past | SNOWDROP | the poisonous half | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 240](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/240/) - next →: [sentence 242](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/242/) - ↑ back to [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/)