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title: “Because the voice you heard—I know you will laugh, but it is quite… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Because the voice you heard—I know you will laugh, but it is quite true—it was the voice of the Yara.” Who acts: you, girl, danger. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 94

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“Because the voice you heard—I know you will laugh, but it is quite true—it was the voice of the Yara.”

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**Who acts:** you, girl, danger · **What happens:** hear, know, laugh, be · **To what, where:** voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl, danger), 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:pg3282:10:94
# text = “Because the voice you heard—I know you will laugh, but it is quite true—it was the voice of the Yara.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Because	because	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Yara	Yara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | you |  |  |  |  | because the voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | the girl *= girl* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **laugh** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | danger |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | danger | the voice |  |  |  | of the Yara | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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