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title: ‘Do you really imagine, brave son of the earth, that you can pluck a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Do you really imagine, brave son of the earth, that you can pluck an apple so easily from the Tree of the Sun? Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Death of the Sun-hero (27), sentence 18

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‘Do you really imagine, brave son of the earth, that you can pluck an apple so easily from the Tree of the Sun?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** imagine, pluck · **To what, where:** apple, Tree

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of the Sun-hero (27). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg640:38:18
# text = ‘Do you really imagine, brave son of the earth, that you can pluck an apple so easily from the Tree of the Sun?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	imagine	imagine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Sun	Sun	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  | brave son of the earth *vocative* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **pluck** | can | you | a apple |  | the Tree of the Sun |  | easily *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent apple=Theme from tree=Source |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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