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title: So the young man came out from his hiding-place and begged the sun t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So the young man came out from his hiding-place and begged the sun to tell him if in the course of his travels he had not seen somewhere a palace that had not its like in the whole world, for its laths were of gold and its tiles of diamond, and all the furniture in silver and gold. Who acts: young m
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 55

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So the young man came out from his hiding-place and begged the sun to tell him if in the course of his travels he had not seen somewhere a palace that had not its like in the whole world, for its laths were of gold and its tiles of diamond, and all the furniture in silver and gold.

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**Who acts:** young man, sun, palace, laths · **What happens:** come out, beg, tell, travel, not see, have · **To what, where:** hiding place, sun, palace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, sun, palace, laths), 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:pg7277:20:55
# text = So the young man came out from his hiding-place and begged the sun to tell him if in the course of his travels he had not seen somewhere a palace that had not its like in the whole world, for its laths were of gold and its tiles of diamond, and all the furniture in silver and gold.
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	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	travels	travel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	_
30	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	29	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
37	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	laths	lath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
46	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	tiles	tile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	conj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	58	det:predet	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	furniture	furniture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
59	in	in	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | past | the young man |  |  | man's hiding place |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the young man *not said here* | the sun |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent sun=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the young man *not said here* |  | sun |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 4 | **travel** | present | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | sun | a palace |  |  |  | somewhere *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
| 6 | **have** | past | a palace |  |  |  |  | like course's whole world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is** | past | world's laths |  |  |  |  | of gold and gold's tiles of diamond | 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 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.

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