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title: The youth grew more and more astonished when the little grey man led… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The youth grew more and more astonished when the little grey man led him into a castle far bigger and more splendid than the one they had left. Who acts: youth, little grey man, stars. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 49

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The youth grew more and more astonished when the little grey man led him into a castle far bigger and more splendid than the one they had left.

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**Who acts:** youth, little grey man, stars · **What happens:** grow, lead, leave · **To what, where:** youth, castle, one

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, little grey man, stars), 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:pg7277:55:49
# text = The youth grew more and more astonished when the little grey man led him into a castle far bigger and more splendid than the one they had left.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
22	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the youth |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the little grey man | youth |  | a castle |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into castle=Destination |
| 3 | **leave** | past · perfect | stars *= star* | the one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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