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title: Wounded to death, he crept back through the village, and no man knew… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Wounded to death, he crept back through the village, and no man knew the old, old man to be the strong handsome youth who had run down the street an hour before. Who acts: man, strong handsome youth. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 123

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Wounded to death, he crept back through the village, and no man knew the old, old man to be the strong handsome youth who had run down the street an hour before.

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**Who acts:** man, strong handsome youth · **What happens:** wound, creep back, know, be, run down · **To what, where:** village, old old man, strong handsome youth, street

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, strong handsome youth), 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:pg5615:3:123
# text = Wounded to death, he crept back through the village, and no man knew the old, old man to be the strong handsome youth who had run down the street an hour before.
1	Wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:unmarked	_	_
35	before	before	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wound** | participle | man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **creep back** | past | man |  |  | the village |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through village=Trajectory |
| 3 | **know** | past | no man | the old old man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | the strong handsome youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **run down** | past · perfect | the strong handsome youth | the street |  |  | hour | before *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme street=Trajectory |

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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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