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title: The young man who, unlike most of his tribe, was afraid of his wife,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man who, unlike most of his tribe, was afraid of his wife, returned to his bed without having seen anything, but wondering very much what she could be doing all this time. Who acts: young man, wife. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21, with its dependency
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 118

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The young man who, unlike most of his tribe, was afraid of his wife, returned to his bed without having seen anything, but wondering very much what she could be doing all this time.

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**Who acts:** young man, wife · **What happens:** be, return, have, see, wonder, do · **To what, where:** anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, wife), 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:pg3027:21:118
# text = The young man who, unlike most of his tribe, was afraid of his wife, returned to his bed without having seen anything, but wondering very much what she could be doing all this time.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	unlike	unlike	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
24	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	advcl	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	35	obj	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux	_	_
35	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	ccomp	_	_
36	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
37	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | unlike most; of man's tribe; of man's wife; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past | the young man |  |  |  |  | to man's bed *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to bed=Result |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | the young man *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **do** | could · progressive | wife |  |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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