--- title: And the young lady ran to tell her father, and said there was a pret… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And the young lady ran to tell her father, and said there was a pretty young man in the back kitchen; and immediately the gentleman came to him, and questioned him, and asked what work he could do. Who acts: young lady, pretty young man, gentleman, lad. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young lady, pretty young man, gentleman, lad), 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:pg7439:20:18 # text = And the young lady ran to tell her father, and said there was a pretty young man in the back kitchen; and immediately the gentleman came to him, and questioned him, and asked what work he could do. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 14 expl _ _ 14 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 ccomp _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 compound _ _ 22 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 gentleman gentleman NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 questioned question VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 34 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 38 what what DET WDT PronType=Int 39 det _ _ 39 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | the young lady | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the young lady *not said here* | | lady's father | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the young lady *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | past | a pretty young man in the back kitchen | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **come** | past | the gentleman | | lad | | | immediately *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **question** *speech: other* | past | the gentleman *not said here* | | lad | | | | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 7 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the young lady *not said here* | what work | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent work=Recipient | | 8 | **do** | could | lad | what work *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/19/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Golden Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/20/)