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title: “Now that I have got you I will keep you,” said the leader, who had… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now that I have got you I will keep you,” said the leader, who had happened to seize his betrothed. Who acts: leader. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 21

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“Now that I have got you I will keep you,” said the leader, who had happened to seize his betrothed.

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**Who acts:** leader · **What happens:** get, keep, say, happen, seize, betroth · **To what, where:** you · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leader), 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:pg3282:12:21
# text = “Now that I have got you I will keep you,” said the leader, who had happened to seize his betrothed.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	betrothed	betroth	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the leader *= leader* | you |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
| 2 | **keep** *in a quote* | future | the leader *= leader* | you |  |  | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the leader |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **happen** | past · perfect | the leader |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seize** | to-infinitive | the leader *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **betroth** | participle | the leader *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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 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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