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title: You would have thought that after this the poor youth would have bee… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You would have thought that after this the poor youth would have been left in peace; but no, his enemy the stableman hated him as much as ever, and laid a new plot for his undoing. Who acts: You, enemy, youth. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, wi
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 52

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You would have thought that after this the poor youth would have been left in peace; but no, his enemy the stableman hated him as much as ever, and laid a new plot for his undoing.

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**Who acts:** You, enemy, youth · **What happens:** think, leave, hate, lay, undo · **To what, where:** this, poor youth, peace, youth, new plot · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, enemy, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg2435:14:52
# text = You would have thought that after this the poor youth would have been left in peace; but no, his enemy the stableman hated him as much as ever, and laid a new plot for his undoing.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
13	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stableman	stableman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	obj	_	_
29	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	undoing	undoing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | would · perfect | You | this |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | would · perfect · passive |  | the poor youth |  | peace |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in peace=Location |
| 3 | **hate** | past | youth's enemy | youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay** | past | youth's enemy *not said here* | a new plot |  |  |  | for youth's undoing | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent plot=Result for undoing=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **undo** |  | youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom undoing «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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