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title: The young fellow knocked at the door and asked the old man who opene… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young fellow knocked at the door and asked the old man who opened it if he could rest there that night, adding that he had no money to pay for it. Who acts: young fellow, old man, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tre
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 25

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The young fellow knocked at the door and asked the old man who opened it if he could rest there that night, adding that he had no money to pay for it.

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**Who acts:** young fellow, old man, man · **What happens:** knock, ask, open, rest, add, have · **To what, where:** young fellow, old man, door, money · **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 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young fellow, old man, man), 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:pg2435:18:25
# text = The young fellow knocked at the door and asked the old man who opened it if he could rest there that night, adding that he had no money to pay for it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	knocked	knock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	29	det	_	_
29	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	acl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **knock** | participle |  | the young fellow *not said here* |  |  |  | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the young fellow |  | the old man |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 3 | **open** | past | the old man | door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
| 4 | **rest** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | man |  |  | there | night |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **have** | past | man | no money |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient |
| 7 | **pay** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | no money *not said here* |  |  |  | for money | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=Theme |

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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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