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title: The Crab then gave his wife the same directions as before, only this… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Crab then gave his wife the same directions as before, only this time the apple which she received from the black man was of gold. Who acts: Crab, apple. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 59

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The Crab then gave his wife the same directions as before, only this time the apple which she received from the black man was of gold.

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**Who acts:** Crab, apple · **What happens:** give, receive, be · **To what, where:** same directions, wife, time

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crab, apple), 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:pg640:7:59
# text = The Crab then gave his wife the same directions as before, only this time the apple which she received from the black man was of gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crab	Crab	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	directions	direction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | the Crab | the same directions | husband's wife |  | then; time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient direction=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | past | the apple |  |  |  |  | from the black man | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from man=Source |
| 3 | **is** | past | the apple | this time *not said here* |  |  |  | of gold | tree rules |

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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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