--- title: When the young lord came in he hardly looked up, till he saw a chair… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the young lord came in he hardly looked up, till he saw a chair close up to him, and asked him: "Pray, sir, had you not once a young daughter whom you would never see or own?" Who acts: young lord, lord, chair. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young lord, lord, chair), 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:pg14241:32:28 # text = When the young lord came in he hardly looked up, till he saw a chair close up to him, and asked him: "Pray, sir, had you not once a young daughter whom you would never see or own?" 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 5 obl _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 up up ADP RP _ 9 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 till till SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 close close VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Pray Pray PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 sir sir NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 37 advmod _ _ 34 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 37 advmod _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 38 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 obj _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl:relcl _ _ 43 or or CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 own own VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come in** | past | the young lord | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **look up** | past | lord | | | | | hardly *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 3 | **see** | past | lord | a chair | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **close up** | infinitive | a chair *not said here* | | lord | | | | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | | 5 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | | | lord | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | past | | lord | | | | a young daughter *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | | 7 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | would | lord | a young daughter | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus | | 8 | **own** *in a quote* | infinitive | lord *not said here* | | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/29/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/)