--- title: The young man walked round and round the castle, not caring who saw… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The young man walked round and round the castle, not caring who saw him, till the King noticed him, and asked what he was doing there. Who acts: young man, King. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/13/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/) / 13 # The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 13 The young man walked round and round the castle, not caring who saw him, till the King noticed him, and asked what he was doing there. **Who acts:** young man, King · **What happens:** walk, round, not care, see, notice, ask · **To what, where:** castle, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. 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, King), 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:pg7277:20:13 # text = The young man walked round and round the castle, not caring who saw him, till the King noticed him, and asked what he was doing there. 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 4 nsubj _ _ 4 walked walk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 round round ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 round round VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 caring care VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 advcl _ _ 13 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 till till SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 28 obj _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 ccomp _ _ 29 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **walk** | past | the young man | | | | | round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **round** | infinitive | the young man *not said here* | the castle | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent castle=Patient | | 3 | **not** **care** | gerund | the young man *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **see** | past | | man | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 5 | **notice** | past | the King | man | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the King *not said here* | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **do** | past · progressive | King | | | there | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/14/) - ↑ back to [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/)