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title: The young man thanked them for their counsel, and Tritill and Litill… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man thanked them for their counsel, and Tritill and Litill then took leave of him, saying that for the present he would need them no more. Who acts: young man, Tritill, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency tree and
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 65

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The young man thanked them for their counsel, and Tritill and Litill then took leave of him, saying that for the present he would need them no more.

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**Who acts:** young man, Tritill, man · **What happens:** thank, take, leave, say, need · **To what, where:** oxen · **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 (young man, Tritill, 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:pg2435:22:65
# text = The young man thanked them for their counsel, and Tritill and Litill then took leave of him, saying that for the present he would need them no more.
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	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	Tritill	Tritill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Litill	Litill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	no	no	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the young man |  | oxen *= ox* |  |  | for oxen's counsel | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Theme for counsel=Attribute |
| 2 | **take** | past | Tritill and Litill |  |  |  | then |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 3 | **leave** | infinitive | Tritill and Litill *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of man | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of he=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Tritill and Litill *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **need** | would | man | oxen *= ox* |  |  |  | for the present | 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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