--- title: At last the little boy turned up, looking very ragged and desolated… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At last the little boy turned up, looking very ragged and desolated like, and the king's daughter cast her eye on him, till her father grew very angry and ordered them to turn the little beggar boy away. " Who acts: last little boy, daughter, father. 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" **Who acts:** last little boy, daughter, father · **What happens:** turn up, look, desolate, cast, grow, order · **To what, where:** eye, signs, little beggar boy This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last little boy, daughter, father), 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:pg14241:30:115 # text = At last the little boy turned up, looking very ragged and desolated like, and the king's daughter cast her eye on him, till her father grew very angry and ordered them to turn the little beggar boy away. " 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 ragged ragged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 xcomp _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 desolated desolate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 14 like like ADP IN _ 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 's 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 cast cast VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 22 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 till till SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 angry angry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 beggar beggar NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 41 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 42 away away ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn up** | past | the last little boy | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look** | gerund | the last little boy *not said here* | | | | | ragged *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **desolate** | participle | the last little boy *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **cast** | past | the king's daughter | daughter's eye | | | | on boy | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on he=Destination | | 5 | **grow** | past | daughter's father | | | | | angry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **order** | past | daughter's father *not said here* | | signs *= sign* | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **turn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | daughter's father *not said here* | the little beggar boy | | | | away *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme boy=Result | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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 114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/30/114/) - next →: [sentence 116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/30/116/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/30/)