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title: ‘Oh! dear youths,’ said the old man, ‘I am terribly lonely here; pra… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh! dear youths,’ said the old man, ‘I am terribly lonely here; pray bring a bride for me also; only remember, she must be young and pretty.’ Who acts: dear youths, I, girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 106

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‘Oh! dear youths,’ said the old man, ‘I am terribly lonely here; pray bring a bride for me also; only remember, she must be young and pretty.’

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**Who acts:** dear youths, I, girl · **What happens:** say, be, pray, bring, remember · **To what, where:** bride · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dear youths, I, girl), 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:pg5615:21:106
# text = ‘Oh! dear youths,’ said the old man, ‘I am terribly lonely here; pray bring a bride for me also; only remember, she must be young and pretty.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	terribly	terribly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	pray	pray	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
26	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
28	only	only	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	remember	remember	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	_
34	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	ccomp	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dear youths |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  | here |  | lonely, terribly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **pray** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | infinitive |  |  | a bride |  |  | for me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bride=Destination |
| 5 | **remember** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is** | must | girl |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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 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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