--- title: The young man pulled up and removed his cap, for, idiot though he wa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The young man pulled up and removed his cap, for, idiot though he was, he knew that when you have to do with people greater than yourself, a cap is more useful in the hand than on the head. Who acts: young man, heart, you, cap. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Boo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/45/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/) / 45 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 45 The young man pulled up and removed his cap, for, idiot though he was, he knew that when you have to do with people greater than yourself, a cap is more useful in the hand than on the head. **Who acts:** young man, heart, you, cap · **What happens:** pull up, remove, be, know, have, do · **To what, where:** cap, hand · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. 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, heart, you, cap), 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:pg3454:27:45 # text = The young man pulled up and removed his cap, for, idiot though he was, he knew that when you have to do with people greater than yourself, a cap is more useful in the hand than on the head. 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 4 nsubj _ _ 4 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 removed remove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 idiot idiot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 14 though though SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 20 that that SCONJ IN _ 23 mark _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 28 greater great ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 obl _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 36 advmod _ _ 36 useful useful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 than than ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull up** | past | the young man | | | | | for idiot | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for idiot=Beneficiary | | 2 | **remove** | past | the young man *not said here* | heart's cap | | | | | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | | 3 | **be** | past | heart | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **know** | past | heart | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **have** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | with greater | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | a cap | | | the hand | | than the head; useful *property* | tree rules | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/46/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/)