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title: The newcomer was a bright, cheerful, good-looking young man, who soo… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The newcomer was a bright, cheerful, good-looking young man, who soon plunged into conversation and asked many questions. Who acts: newcomer, looking young man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 44

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The newcomer was a bright, cheerful, good-looking young man, who soon plunged into conversation and asked many questions.

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**Who acts:** newcomer, looking young man · **What happens:** look, be, plunge, ask · **To what, where:** looking young man, conversation, many questions

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (newcomer, looking 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:pg2435:34:44
# text = The newcomer was a bright, cheerful, good-looking young man, who soon plunged into conversation and asked many questions.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	newcomer	newcomer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	amod	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
22	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	questions	question	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the newcomer | a looking young man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **plunge** | participle | a looking young man |  |  | conversation |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a looking young man *not said here* | many questions |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |

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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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