--- title: So the young man departed, and went away, away, away, as well as his… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So the young man departed, and went away, away, away, as well as his horse would take him, begging his living as he rode along, and, somehow or other, at last he got to the land of the sun. There he found a little old woman, who asked him, ‘What are you doing here? 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There he found a little old woman, who asked him, ‘What are you doing here? **Who acts:** young man, horse, man, little old woman, you · **What happens:** depart, go away, take, beg, ride along, get · **To what, where:** man, living, last, little old woman 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, horse, man, little old woman), 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:pg7277:20:47 # text = So the young man departed, and went away, away, away, as well as his horse would take him, begging his living as he rode along, and, somehow or other, at last he got to the land of the sun. There he found a little old woman, who asked him, ‘What are you doing here? 1 So so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 departed depart VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 9 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 away away ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 15 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 21 cc _ _ 16 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 fixed _ _ 17 as as ADP IN _ 15 fixed _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 parataxis _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 begging beg VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 30 along along ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 somehow somehow ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 last last NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 50 expl _ _ 49 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 50 nsubj _ _ 50 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 conj _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 52 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 53 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 57 nsubj _ _ 57 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 acl:relcl _ _ 58 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 57 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 60 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 64 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 64 obj _ _ 62 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 64 aux _ _ 63 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 64 nsubj _ _ 64 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 57 conj _ _ 65 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 64 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **depart** | past | the young man | | | | | somehow *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go away** | past | the young man *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** | would | man's horse | | man | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | man's horse *not said here* | man's living | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent living=Recipient | | 5 | **ride along** | past | man | | | | | along *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **get** | past | man | | | last | | to the land of the sun. *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to land=Result | | 7 | **find** | past | man | a little old woman | | there | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | | 8 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | a little old woman | | man | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 9 | **do** | present · progressive | you | | | here | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | | 10 | **live** | | man | | | | | | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=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 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/48/) - ↑ back to [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/)