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title: So directly it grew dark the young man went and hid himself near the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So directly it grew dark the young man went and hid himself near the apple tree to begin his watch, but the apples had scarcely begun to ripen before he fell asleep, and when he awoke at sunrise the apples were gone. Who acts: tree, young man, man, apples. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by An
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 5

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So directly it grew dark the young man went and hid himself near the apple tree to begin his watch, but the apples had scarcely begun to ripen before he fell asleep, and when he awoke at sunrise the apples were gone.

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**Who acts:** tree, young man, man, apples · **What happens:** grow, go, hide, begin, ripen, fall · **To what, where:** man, apple tree, watch, apples, sunrise

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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 (tree, young man, man, apples), 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:pg641:7:5
# text = So directly it grew dark the young man went and hid himself near the apple tree to begin his watch, but the apples had scarcely begun to ripen before he fell asleep, and when he awoke at sunrise the apples were gone.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	begun	begin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	ripen	ripen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
33	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	awoke	awake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	apples	apple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
43	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | tree |  |  |  |  | dark, directly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** | past | the young man *not said here* | man |  | the apple tree |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient near tree=Location |
| 4 | **begin** | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* | man's watch |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Eventuality |
| 5 | **begin** | past · perfect · passive |  | the apples |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **ripen** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **fall** | past | man |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **awake** | past | man |  |  |  | sunrise |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | the apples | sunrise *not said here* |  |  |  | gone *property* | 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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