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title: Next came the turn of the youngest son, who made himself a comfortab… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Next came the turn of the youngest son, who made himself a comfortable bed under the apple tree, and prepared himself to sleep. Who acts: turn, youngest son. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 9

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Next came the turn of the youngest son, who made himself a comfortable bed under the apple tree, and prepared himself to sleep.

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**Who acts:** turn, youngest son · **What happens:** come, make, prepare, sleep · **To what, where:** son, apple tree

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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 (turn, youngest son), 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:pg641:7:9
# text = Next came the turn of the youngest son, who made himself a comfortable bed under the apple tree, and prepared himself to sleep.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the turn of the youngest son |  |  |  |  | next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | the youngest son | son |  | the apple tree |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary bed=Product |
| 3 | **prepare** | past |  | son |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **sleep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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