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title: The young man did not laugh with them, but instead left the hut and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The young man did not laugh with them, but instead left the hut and went straight to the owner of the dog, whom he begged to lend him the animal just for one night. Who acts: young man, man, owner. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its d
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 195

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The young man did not laugh with them, but instead left the hut and went straight to the owner of the dog, whom he begged to lend him the animal just for one night.

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**Who acts:** young man, man, owner · **What happens:** not laugh, leave, go, beg, lend · **To what, where:** hut, owner, animal, man

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. 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, man, owner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg641:372`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:4:195
# text = The young man did not laugh with them, but instead left the hut and went straight to the owner of the dog, whom he begged to lend him the animal just for one night.
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	6	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	lend	lend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	just	just	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **laugh** | past · do-support | the young man |  |  |  |  | with dogs *= dog* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | past | the young man *not said here* | the hut |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hut=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | the young man *not said here* |  |  | the owner of the dog |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to owner=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | man | the owner of the dog |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **lend** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the owner of the dog *not said here* | the animal | man |  | night |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient animal=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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