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description: The young man at once broke off some of the bread, begging the old man to sit down beside him, and treating him as if he was an old friend. Who acts: young man, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 17

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The young man at once broke off some of the bread, begging the old man to sit down beside him, and treating him as if he was an old friend.

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**Who acts:** young man, man · **What happens:** break off, beg, sit down, treat, be · **To what, where:** some, old man, man, old friend

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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:pg2435:22:17
# text = The young man at once broke off some of the bread, begging the old man to sit down beside him, and treating him as if he was an old friend.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
6	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
19	down	down	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
27	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break off** | past | the young man | some |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Patient |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  | the old man |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
| 3 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | beside man | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location |
| 4 | **treat** | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  | man |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 5 | **is a** | past | man | a old friend |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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