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title: After many had met their death thus, there came a young man, beautif… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After many had met their death thus, there came a young man, beautiful to behold, and as clever as he was beautiful, who had a great desire to attempt the enterprise. Who acts: many, young man, eldest, men. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 8

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After many had met their death thus, there came a young man, beautiful to behold, and as clever as he was beautiful, who had a great desire to attempt the enterprise.

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**Who acts:** many, young man, eldest, men · **What happens:** meet, come, be, have, attempt, die · **To what, where:** death, great desire, enterprise

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, young man, eldest, men), 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:pg641:37:8
# text = After many had met their death thus, there came a young man, beautiful to behold, and as clever as he was beautiful, who had a great desire to attempt the enterprise.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	clever	clever	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	desire	desire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · perfect | many | men's death |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent death=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | a young man |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | eldest *= eld* |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | past |  | a great desire |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient |
| 5 | **attempt** | to-infinitive |  | the enterprise |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enterprise=Eventuality |
| 6 | **die** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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