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title: When day broke the youth put the fifty dollars into his pocket, set… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 49

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When day broke the youth put the fifty dollars into his pocket, set out on the hard high road, and kept muttering to himself: “If I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”

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**What happens:** break, put, set out, keep, mutter, shudder · **To what, where:** youth, fifty dollars, pocket, hard high road, father · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg503:13:49
# text = When day broke the youth put the fifty dollars into his pocket, set out on the hard high road, and kept muttering to himself: “If I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	dollars	dollar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	muttering	mutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	xcomp	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	nsubj	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
35	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past |  | the youth |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive |  | the fifty dollars |  | father's pocket |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent dollar=Goal |
| 3 | **set out** | participle |  | father's pocket *not said here* |  | the hard high road |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **keep** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  | father |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
| 6 | **shudder** *in a quote* | could |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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