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title: Although his task was no easier than that of the day before, the you… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Although his task was no easier than that of the day before, the youth set out much more cheerfully, because he knew he could count an the help of the black girl. Who acts: task, youth, Prince. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, with its dependency 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4, sentence 73

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Although his task was no easier than that of the day before, the youth set out much more cheerfully, because he knew he could count an the help of the black girl.

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**Who acts:** task, youth, Prince · **What happens:** not be, set out, know, count, task, help · **To what, where:** an, black girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task, youth, Prince), 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:pg640:25:73
# text = Although his task was no easier than that of the day before, the youth set out much more cheerfully, because he knew he could count an the help of the black girl.
1	Although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	task	task	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	much	much	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
28	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	obj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Prince's task |  |  |  |  | than that; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **set out** | participle | the youth |  |  |  |  | cheerfully *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **count** | could | Prince | an |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **task** |  | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **help** |  |  | the black girl |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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