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title: The young man could not remain deaf to such a message, and he took a… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man could not remain deaf to such a message, and he took a tender farewell of his wife, and set out on his journey home. Who acts: young man, prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 67

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The young man could not remain deaf to such a message, and he took a tender farewell of his wife, and set out on his journey home.

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**Who acts:** young man, prince · **What happens:** not remain, take, set out, journey · **To what, where:** tender farewell, journey

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. 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, prince), 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:pg3282:25:67
# text = The young man could not remain deaf to such a message, and he took a tender farewell of his wife, and set out on his journey home.
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	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	farewell	farewell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	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	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	home	home	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **remain** | could | the young man |  |  |  |  | deaf *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | prince | a tender farewell of prince's wife |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent farewell=Theme |
| 3 | **set out** | past | prince *not said here* |  |  | prince's journey |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **journey** |  | prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «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 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.

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