--- title: When we grew up and heard you were searching for the golden apple, w… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When we grew up and heard you were searching for the golden apple, we flew far away over the seas to the end of the world, where the tree of life grows, and fetched the golden apple for you.’ Who acts: we, you, tree. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake, with its depe --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/60/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The White Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/) / 60 # The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 60 When we grew up and heard you were searching for the golden apple, we flew far away over the seas to the end of the world, where the tree of life grows, and fetched the golden apple for you.’ **Who acts:** we, you, tree · **What happens:** grow up, search, fly, grow, fetch · **To what, where:** seas, golden apple This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:50:60 # text = When we grew up and heard you were searching for the golden apple, we flew far away over the seas to the end of the world, where the tree of life grows, and fetched the golden apple for you.’ 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 6 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 searching search VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 15 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 advmod _ _ 18 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 seas sea NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod _ _ 34 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 fetched fetch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 41 for for ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grow up** | past | we | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **search** | past · progressive | you | | | | | for the golden apple | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for apple=Theme | | 3 | **fly** | past | we | | | the seas to the end of the world | | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over sea=Location | | 4 | **grow** | present | the tree of life | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **fetch** | past | we *not said here* | the golden apple | | | | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent apple=Theme for you=Beneficiary | 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. **Text:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/61/) - ↑ back to [The White Snake](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/50/)