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title: On his road, he also met the two old beggars, who prayed for a littl… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: On his road, he also met the two old beggars, who prayed for a little of his bread and milk, but this young man had never been taught to help other people, and had made it a rule through his life to keep all he had to himself. Who acts: man, two old beggars, young man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fai
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 6

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On his road, he also met the two old beggars, who prayed for a little of his bread and milk, but this young man had never been taught to help other people, and had made it a rule through his life to keep all he had to himself.

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**Who acts:** man, two old beggars, young man · **What happens:** meet, pray, not teach, help, make, keep · **To what, where:** two old beggars, road, young man, other people, milk, all

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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 (man, two old beggars, young 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:pg2435:22:6
# text = On his road, he also met the two old beggars, who prayed for a little of his bread and milk, but this young man had never been taught to help other people, and had made it a rule through his life to keep all he had to himself.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
43	through	through	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
48	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	47	obj	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	acl:relcl	_	_
51	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | man | the two old beggars |  | man's road |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **pray** | past | the two old beggars |  |  |  |  | for a little | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for little=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **teach** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive |  | this young man |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | this young man *not said here* |  | other people |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **make** | past · perfect | man *not said here* | milk |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary rule=Product |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | past | man |  | man |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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