--- title: Slowly and sadly the youth left the palace and told his story to his… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Slowly and sadly the youth left the palace and told his story to his friends, who were waiting outside the gate, how he had actually held the hen three times in his arms and had lost her. Who acts: youth, friends. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:23:41 # text = Slowly and sadly the youth left the palace and told his story to his friends, who were waiting outside the gate, how he had actually held the hen three times in his arms and had lost her. 1 Slowly slowly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 3 sadly sadly ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 friends friend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 waiting wait VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 acl:relcl _ _ 20 outside outside ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 actually actually ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 conj _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leave** | past | the youth | the palace | | | | sadly, slowly *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the youth *not said here* | castle's story | castle's friends | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Topic to friend=Recipient | | 3 | **wait** | past · progressive | castle's friends | | | the gate | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside gate=Location | | 4 | **hold** | past · perfect · passive | | castle | | castle's arms | time | actually *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme hen=Eventuality | | 5 | **lose** | past · perfect | | youth | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | 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. **Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/23/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/23/42/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/23/)