--- title: The young man did as he was bid, and when the lion was made the old… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The young man did as he was bid, and when the lion was made the old woman hid the youth in it, and brought it to the king, who was so delighted with it that he wanted to buy it. Who acts: young man, old woman, man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/83/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/) / 83 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 83 The young man did as he was bid, and when the lion was made the old woman hid the youth in it, and brought it to the king, who was so delighted with it that he wanted to buy it. **Who acts:** young man, old woman, man · **What happens:** do, bid, make, hide, bring, be · **To what, where:** man, lion, youth This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 24. 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, old woman, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:24:83 # text = The young man did as he was bid, and when the lion was made the old woman hid the youth in it, and brought it to the king, who was so delighted with it that he wanted to buy it. 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 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 bid bid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 15 mark _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lion lion NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj:pass _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 parataxis _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 cop _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 advcl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the young man | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bid** | past · passive | | man | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | past · passive | | the lion | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 4 | **hide** | past | the old woman | the youth | | | | in Lion | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent youth=Patient in it=Location | | 5 | **bring** | past | the young man *not said here* | Lion | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | to the king; with Lion; delighted *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **want** | past | man | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 8 | **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | Lion | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/84/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/24/)