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title: But every morning the fruit was gone, and the boughs were bare of bl… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But every morning the fruit was gone, and the boughs were bare of blossom, without anyone being able to discover who was the thief. Who acts: fruit, boughs, anyone. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 2

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But every morning the fruit was gone, and the boughs were bare of blossom, without anyone being able to discover who was the thief.

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**Who acts:** fruit, boughs, anyone · **What happens:** be, discover · **To what, where:** thief

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fruit, boughs, anyone), 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:pg641:7:2
# text = But every morning the fruit was gone, and the boughs were bare of blossom, without anyone being able to discover who was the thief.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	blossom	blossom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	20	nsubj	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	discover	discover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the fruit |  |  |  | morning | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the boughs |  |  |  |  | of blossom; bare *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | gerund | anyone |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **discover** | to-infinitive | anyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the thief |  |  |  |  | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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