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title: The youth went too on his way, and began to murmur to himself: “Oh!… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth went too on his way, and began to murmur to himself: “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!” Who acts: youth. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 67

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The youth went too on his way, and began to murmur to himself: “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”

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**Who acts:** youth · **What happens:** go, begin, murmur · **To what, where:** way, man

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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: who acts (youth), 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:pg503:13:67
# text = The youth went too on his way, and began to murmur to himself: “Oh! if I could only shudder! if I could only shudder!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	murmur	murmur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	shudder	shudder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the youth |  |  | man's way |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the youth *not said here* |  | man |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |

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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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