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title: When I was a young lad I had no home and no one to care for me, and… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When I was a young lad I had no home and no one to care for me, and I wandered from village to village all over the country with my knapsack on my back; but as soon as I was old enough I took service with a shepherd in the mountains, and helped him for three years. Who acts: I, young lad. A sentence
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 67

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When I was a young lad I had no home and no one to care for me, and I wandered from village to village all over the country with my knapsack on my back; but as soon as I was old enough I took service with a shepherd in the mountains, and helped him for three years.

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**Who acts:** I, young lad · **What happens:** be, have, care, wander, take, help · **To what, where:** young lad, home, village, service, mountains, lad

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, young lad), 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:pg2435:15:67
# text = When I was a young lad I had no home and no one to care for me, and I wandered from village to village all over the country with my knapsack on my back; but as soon as I was old enough I took service with a shepherd in the mountains, and helped him for three years.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	wandered	wander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
37	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
43	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	advcl	_	_
44	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
45	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
47	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obj	_	_
48	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
57	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	for	for	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	60	nummod	_	_
60	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | I | a young lad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | a young lad | no home and no one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient |
| 3 | **care** | to-infinitive | a young lad *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for me | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=Theme |
| 4 | **wander** | past | I |  |  | village |  | to village; over the country; with my knapsack on my back | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination |
| 5 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | enough, old, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | past | I | service |  | the mountains |  | with a shepherd | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Value in mountain=Location |
| 7 | **help** | past | I *not said here* |  | lad |  | year |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |

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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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