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title: If you come across a young man who pleases you beg him to accompany… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: If you come across a young man who pleases you beg him to accompany you, and when you get to an inn invite him to have dinner with you. Who acts: you, young man, man. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 33

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If you come across a young man who pleases you beg him to accompany you, and when you get to an inn invite him to have dinner with you.

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**Who acts:** you, young man, man · **What happens:** come, please, beg, accompany, get, invite · **To what, where:** man, you, dinner

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, young man, 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:pg2435:37:33
# text = If you come across a young man who pleases you beg him to accompany you, and when you get to an inn invite him to have dinner with you.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pleases	please	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	beg	beg	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	invite	invite	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | across a young man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across man=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **please** | present | a young man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | present | you |  | man |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **accompany** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | present | you |  |  |  |  | to a inn *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to inn=Result |
| 6 | **invite** | imperative | you *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | dinner |  |  |  | with you | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient |

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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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