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title: His youngest son wished to go in search of his brothers, but for lon… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His youngest son wished to go in search of his brothers, but for long the emperor refused to listen to him, lest he should lose him also. Who acts: youngest son, emperor. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 42

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His youngest son wished to go in search of his brothers, but for long the emperor refused to listen to him, lest he should lose him also.

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**Who acts:** youngest son, emperor · **What happens:** wish, go, refuse, not listen, lose, search · **To what, where:** youngest son, search, emperor, son, brothers

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest son, emperor), 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:pg2435:8:42
# text = His youngest son wished to go in search of his brothers, but for long the emperor refused to listen to him, lest he should lose him also.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	youngest	young	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	also	also	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | participle |  | son's youngest son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | search of son's brothers |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location |
| 3 | **refuse** | past | son's youngest son |  |  |  |  |  | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **listen** | to-infinitive | son's youngest son *not said here* |  | emperor |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme |
| 5 | **lose** | should | emperor | son |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
| 6 | **search** |  |  | son's brothers |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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