--- title: At first the youth tried to collect them again, but he soon found th… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At first the youth tried to collect them again, but he soon found that it was no use, and he cried in despair: “Tritill, Litill, and all my birds, come and help me!” Who acts: youth, breeze, birds. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/) / 47 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 47 At first the youth tried to collect them again, but he soon found that it was no use, and he cried in despair: “Tritill, Litill, and all my birds, come and help me!” **Who acts:** youth, breeze, birds · **What happens:** try, collect, find, be, cry, come · **To what, where:** feathers, use, Tritill, despair, youth · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, breeze, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg2435:22:47 # text = At first the youth tried to collect them again, but he soon found that it was no use, and he cried in despair: “Tritill, Litill, and all my birds, come and help me!” 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 5 obl _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 again again ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 14 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 18 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 19 det _ _ 19 use use NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 despair despair NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 Tritill Tritill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Litill Litill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 conj _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **try** | past | the youth | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **collect** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the youth *not said here* | feathers *= feather* | | | again | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | youth | | | | | soon *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | breeze | no use | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | youth | Tritill and Litill | | despair | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in despair=Location | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | my birds | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **help** *in a quote* | infinitive | my birds *not said here* | | youth | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/48/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/)