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title: ‘The figs in truth belong to you, but you cannot pluck them without… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The figs in truth belong to you, but you cannot pluck them without touching both the trunk and the branches. Who acts: figs, you. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 104

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‘The figs in truth belong to you, but you cannot pluck them without touching both the trunk and the branches.

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**Who acts:** figs, you · **What happens:** belong, not pluck, touch · **To what, where:** you, figs, trunk

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (figs, you), 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:pg5615:37:104
# text = ‘The figs in truth belong to you, but you cannot pluck them without touching both the trunk and the branches.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc:preconj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trunk	trunk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | the figs in truth |  | you |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **pluck** | can | you | figs *= fig* |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 3 | **touch** | gerund | you *not said here* | the trunk and the branches |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trunk=Co-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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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