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title: Then the poor young man again set forth as well as his horse could t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the poor young man again set forth as well as his horse could take him, begging his living as he went, and, somehow or other, he ended by reaching the home of the wind. Who acts: poor young man, sun. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 57

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Then the poor young man again set forth as well as his horse could take him, begging his living as he went, and, somehow or other, he ended by reaching the home of the wind.

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**Who acts:** poor young man, sun · **What happens:** set, take, beg, go, end, reach · **To what, where:** poor young man, sun, living, home

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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 (poor young man, sun), 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:pg7277:20:57
# text = Then the poor young man again set forth as well as his horse could take him, begging his living as he went, and, somehow or other, he ended by reaching the home of the wind.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	begging	beg	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
33	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	reaching	reach	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle |  | the poor young man *not said here* |  |  |  | as man's horse; forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | could | the poor young man |  | sun |  |  | somehow *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
| 3 | **beg** *speech: request* | gerund | the poor young man *not said here* | sun's living |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent living=Recipient |
| 4 | **go** | past | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **end** | past | sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **reach** | gerund | sun *not said here* | the home of the wind |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent home=Theme |
| 7 | **live** |  | sun |  |  |  |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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