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title: When the youth heard all this he determined to try and get possessio… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the youth heard all this he determined to try and get possession of the ring, though he did not quite believe in all its wonderful gifts. Who acts: youth, angel, ring. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 111

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When the youth heard all this he determined to try and get possession of the ring, though he did not quite believe in all its wonderful gifts.

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**Who acts:** youth, angel, ring · **What happens:** hear, determine, try, get, not believe, possess · **To what, where:** this, possession, wonderful gifts, ring

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, angel, ring), 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:pg640:5:111
# text = When the youth heard all this he determined to try and get possession of the ring, though he did not quite believe in all its wonderful gifts.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
13	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the youth | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **determine** | past | angel |  |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **try** | to-infinitive | angel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **get** | infinitive | angel *not said here* | possession of the ring |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer possession=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **believe** | past · do-support | angel |  |  | ring's wonderful gifts |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **possess** |  |  | the ring |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **gift** |  | ring |  |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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