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title: The youth, however, would not listen; and bidding his father and mot… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth, however, would not listen; and bidding his father and mother farewell, set out on his search. Who acts: youth. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 120

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The youth, however, would not listen; and bidding his father and mother farewell, set out on his search.

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** not listen, bid, set out, search · **To what, where:** father, search

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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:pg3027:20:120
# text = The youth, however, would not listen; and bidding his father and mother farewell, set out on his search.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bidding	bid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	farewell	farewell	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **listen** | would | the youth |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bid** | gerund | the youth *not said here* | youth's father and mother |  |  |  | farewell *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **set out** | participle | the youth *not said here* |  |  | youth's search |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **search** |  | youth |  |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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