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title: The young man lay down in a bed which stood near, but he dared not g… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man lay down in a bed which stood near, but he dared not go to sleep: and it was better that he didn’t, for the robbers came, and the old woman said that a young fellow who was a stranger had come there, and she had not been able to get him to go away again. Who acts: young man, bed, man, 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 23

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The young man lay down in a bed which stood near, but he dared not go to sleep: and it was better that he didn’t, for the robbers came, and the old woman said that a young fellow who was a stranger had come there, and she had not been able to get him to go away again.

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**Who acts:** young man, bed, man, robbers, old woman, young fellow · **What happens:** lie down, stand, go, be, not do, come · **To what, where:** bed, sleep, stranger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. 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, bed, man, robbers), 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:pg540:9:23
# text = The young man lay down in a bed which stood near, but he dared not go to sleep: and it was better that he didn’t, for the robbers came, and the old woman said that a young fellow who was a stranger had come there, and she had not been able to get him to go away again.
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	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	near	near	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
17	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
44	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	ccomp	_	_
50	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
53	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
54	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
55	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	57	advmod	_	_
56	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	57	cop	_	_
57	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	_
58	to	to	PART	TO	_	59	mark	_	_
59	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	_
60	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	to	to	PART	TO	_	62	mark	_	_
62	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	59	xcomp	_	_
63	away	away	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	_
64	again	again	ADV	RB	_	62	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | past | the young man |  |  | a bed |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | a bed |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | man |  |  | sleep |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **do** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | past | the robbers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the old woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **come** | past · perfect | a young fellow |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | woman |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **get** | to-infinitive | woman *not said here* | stranger |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **go away** | to-infinitive | stranger *not said here* |  |  |  | again | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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