--- title: This the young man did, but as soon as they reached the outskirts of… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This the young man did, but as soon as they reached the outskirts of the mountain they grew quite wild, and would have run away altogether, had they not luckily gone towards a narrow ravine, from which the youth easily drove them home to his father’s cottage. Who acts: This, man. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, man), 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:pg2435:26:45 # text = This the young man did, but as soon as they reached the outskirts of the mountain they grew quite wild, and would have run away altogether, had they not luckily gone towards a narrow ravine, from which the youth easily drove them home to his father’s cottage. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 8 as as ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 advmod _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 outskirts outskirt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 quite quite ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 26 aux _ _ 26 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 altogether altogether ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 33 luckily luckily ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 ccomp _ _ 35 towards towards ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 ravine ravine NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 40 from from ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 45 obl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 easily easily ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 46 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 home home ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’s 's PART POS _ 50 case _ _ 52 cottage cottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | This | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **reach** | past | man | the outskirts of the mountain | | | | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent outskirt=Theme | | 3 | **grow** | past | man | the mountain *not said here* | | | | wild *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=Theme | | 4 | **run away** | would · perfect | This *not said here* | | | | | altogether, away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **have** | past | This *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **not** **go** | participle | man | | | a narrow ravine | | luckily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards ravine=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **drive** | past | man *not said here* | the youth | | youth's father's cottage | | easily, home *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme from which=Destination to cottage=Initial\_Location | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/26/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/26/46/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/26/)