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title: The young man, thinking he might hae to travel a far way, and not kn… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man, thinking he might hae to travel a far way, and not knowing when or how he might get other provisions, said he would like to hae the hale cake, com of his mother’s malison what like; so she gave him the hale cake, and her malison alang wi’t. Who acts: young man, man, part. A sentence o
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 6

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The young man, thinking he might hae to travel a far way, and not knowing when or how he might get other provisions, said he would like to hae the hale cake, com of his mother’s malison what like; so she gave him the hale cake, and her malison alang wi’t.

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**Who acts:** young man, man, part · **What happens:** think, hae, travel, not know, get, say · **To what, where:** far way, other provisions, hale cake, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. 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, man, part), 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:pg503:56:6
# text = The young man, thinking he might hae to travel a far way, and not knowing when or how he might get other provisions, said he would like to hae the hale cake, com of his mother’s malison what like; so she gave him the hale cake, and her malison alang wi’t.
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	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	hae	hae	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	travel	travel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
27	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	ccomp	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	hae	hae	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	hale	hale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	com	com	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	malison	malison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
43	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	42	acl:relcl	_	_
44	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	43	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	iobj	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	hale	hale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
55	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
56	malison	malison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	alang	alang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	compound	_	_
58	wi’t	wi't	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **hae** | might | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **travel** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | a far way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **know** | gerund | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **get** | might | man | other provisions |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer provision=Stimulus |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young man |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **like** | would | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **hae** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the hale cake and com of man's mother's malison |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **give** | past | part | the hale cake | man |  |  | part's alang wi’t *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cake=Theme |

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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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