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title: The youth stared at it in despair, then the old beggar’s words flash… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth stared at it in despair, then the old beggar’s words flashed into his mind, and he cried: “Tritill, Tritill, come and help me!” Who acts: youth, Tritill, old beggar. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 37

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The youth stared at it in despair, then the old beggar’s words flashed into his mind, and he cried: “Tritill, Tritill, come and help me!”

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**Who acts:** youth, Tritill, old beggar · **What happens:** stare, flash, cry, come, help, word · **To what, where:** words, mind, youth · **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 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, Tritill, old beggar), 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:pg2435:22:37
# text = The youth stared at it in despair, then the old beggar’s words flashed into his mind, and he cried: “Tritill, Tritill, come and help me!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stared	stare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	parataxis	_	_
15	flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Tritill	Tritill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Tritill	Tritill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
32	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stare** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  | in despair; at work | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 2 | **flash** | participle |  | the old beggar's words *not said here* |  | youth's mind |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into mind=Recipient |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tritill and Tritill |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | Tritill and Tritill *not said here* |  | youth |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **word** |  | the old beggar |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **mind** |  | youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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