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title: “Comrades,” said he, “you have had wonderful adventures; but I will… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Comrades,” said he, “you have had wonderful adventures; but I will tell you something still more astonishing that happened to myself. Who acts: Comrades, party, astonishing. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 66

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“Comrades,” said he, “you have had wonderful adventures; but I will tell you something still more astonishing that happened to myself.

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**Who acts:** Comrades, party, astonishing · **What happens:** say, have, tell, happen · **To what, where:** wonderful adventures, something, you, Comrades · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Comrades, party, astonishing), 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:pg2435:15:66
# text = “Comrades,” said he, “you have had wonderful adventures; but I will tell you something still more astonishing that happened to myself.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	ccomp	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
21	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	astonishing	astonishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Comrades |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present · perfect | party | wonderful adventures |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Patient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | future | Comrades *= comrade* | something | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic |
| 4 | **happen** *in a quote* | past | astonishing |  | Comrades *= comrade* |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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