--- title: ‘Have you seen a young man and a girl go by?’ said the king, and the… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Have you seen a young man and a girl go by?’ said the king, and the gardener shook his head and replied that no one had passed that way since he had been working there. Who acts: you, young man, gardener, one. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the Wo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Prince Who Wanted to See the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/) / 65 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World, sentence 65 ‘Have you seen a young man and a girl go by?’ said the king, and the gardener shook his head and replied that no one had passed that way since he had been working there. **Who acts:** you, young man, gardener, one · **What happens:** see, go by, say, shake, reply, pass · **To what, where:** young man, king, head, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Prince Who Wanted to See the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, young man, gardener, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg641:42:65 # text = ‘Have you seen a young man and a girl go by?’ said the king, and the gardener shook his head and replied that no one had passed that way since he had been working there. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 ccomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 acl:relcl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 gardener gardener NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 29 det _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 ccomp _ _ 32 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ _ 34 since since SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 38 aux _ _ 38 working work VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 39 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | present · perfect | you | a young man and a girl | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 2 | **go by** | infinitive | a young man and a girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the king | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **shake** | past | the gardener | gardener's head | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 5 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the gardener *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **pass** | past · perfect | no one | that way | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **work** | past · perfect · progressive | gardener | | | there | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/66/) - ↑ back to [The Prince Who Wanted to See the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/42/)