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title: ‘Well!’ the young man said to himself, ‘if the old fellow has many d… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well!’ the young man said to himself, ‘if the old fellow has many daughters like that I should not mind being his son-in-law. Who acts: young man, old fellow, I, son. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 83

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‘Well!’ the young man said to himself, ‘if the old fellow has many daughters like that I should not mind being his son-in-law.

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**Who acts:** young man, old fellow, I, son · **What happens:** say, have, not mind, be · **To what, where:** man, many daughters, law · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. 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, old fellow, I, son), 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:pg641:9:83
# text = ‘Well!’ the young man said to himself, ‘if the old fellow has many daughters like that I should not mind being his son-in-law.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
18	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nmod	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
26	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	cop	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young man |  | man |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the old fellow | many daughters |  |  |  | like that | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **mind** | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | gerund | son |  |  | man's law |  |  | tree rules |

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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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