--- title: Next day when the young lord could not find where was the sign of th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Next day when the young lord could not find where was the sign of the "Basin of Water," or of the "Broken Ladle," he begged his mother to have another grand ball, so that he might meet the beautiful maid once more. Who acts: young lord, lord. 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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), 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:pg14241:32:6 # text = Next day when the young lord could not find where was the sign of the "Basin of Water," or of the "Broken Ladle," he begged his mother to have another grand ball, so that he might meet the beautiful maid once more. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 11 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Basin Basin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 Water Water PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ 22 or or CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 Broken broken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 Ladle Ladle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 32 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 ccomp _ _ 36 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 38 det _ _ 37 grand grand ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 40 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 44 mark _ _ 41 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 fixed _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ _ 48 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 49 advmod _ _ 49 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **find** | could | the young lord | | | | day | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | past | | the sign | | | | of the Basin of Water or the Broken Ladle | tree rules | | 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | lord | | lord's mother | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | another grand ball | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Patient | | 5 | **meet** | might | lord | the beautiful maid | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Co-Agent | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/7/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/)