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title: “I DID go, and made many prisoners,” retorted the turtle angrily, dr… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I DID go, and made many prisoners,” retorted the turtle angrily, drawing out his knife. Who acts: turtle. 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 42

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“I DID go, and made many prisoners,” retorted the turtle angrily, drawing out his knife.

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**Who acts:** turtle · **What happens:** go, make, retort, draw out · **To what, where:** many prisoners, knife · **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 (turtle), 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:pg3282:12:42
# text = “I DID go, and made many prisoners,” retorted the turtle angrily, drawing out his knife.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	DID	did	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	retorted	retort	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	turtle	turtle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	angrily	angrily	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** *in a quote* |  | the turtle *= turtle* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past | the turtle *= turtle* *not said here* | many prisoners |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prisoner=Product |
| 3 | **retort** *speech: other* | past | the turtle |  |  |  |  | angrily *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **draw out** | gerund | the turtle *not said here* | turtle's knife |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=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 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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