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title: A friendly fairy had given him an apple, which he was to smell once… — Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains · tree and pragmatics
description: A friendly fairy had given him an apple, which he was to smell once a year, when a prudent idea should occur to him. Who acts: prince, prudent idea. A sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 12, sentence 59

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A friendly fairy had given him an apple, which he was to smell once a year, when a prudent idea should occur to him.

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**Who acts:** prince, prudent idea · **What happens:** give, be, occur · **To what, where:** friendly fairy, prince

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This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, prudent idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg74323:13:59
# text = A friendly fairy had given him an apple, which he was to smell once a year, when a prudent idea should occur to him.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	smell	smell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	prudent	prudent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	occur	occur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | a friendly fairy | prince |  |  | a apple *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | prince |  |  |  |  | a apple *obj*; once, smell *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **occur** | should | a prudent idea |  | prince |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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