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title: This was soon done, and then the young man drove off the sheep, leav… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 78

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This was soon done, and then the young man drove off the sheep, leaving their real shepherd to repent of his folly; and before he had gone very far he met with a horse boy and a driver of oxen, and he persuaded them to turn with him and to seek for adventures.

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**Who acts:** young man, man, oxen · **What happens:** do, drive off, leave, repent, go, meet · **To what, where:** This, sheep, real shepherd, oxen

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. 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, oxen), 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:pg5615:1:78
# text = This was soon done, and then the young man drove off the sheep, leaving their real shepherd to repent of his folly; and before he had gone very far he met with a horse boy and a driver of oxen, and he persuaded them to turn with him and to seek for adventures.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
31	very	very	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	xcomp	_	_
51	with	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obl	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	conj	_	_
56	for	for	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive |  | This |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drive off** | past | the young man | the sheep |  |  | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | the young man *not said here* | sheep's real shepherd |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme |
| 4 | **repent** | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of man's folly | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **meet** | past | man |  |  |  |  | with a horse boy and a driver of oxen; far *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with boy=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **persuade** | past | man | oxen *= ox* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result |
| 8 | **turn** | to-infinitive | oxen *= ox* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **seek** | to-infinitive | oxen *= ox* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for adventures | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for adventure=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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