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title: Each time he asked: “Are you there?” the answer would come: “Yes, of… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Each time he asked: “Are you there?” the answer would come: “Yes, of course, where else should I be?” Who acts: stag, you, answer. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 106

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Each time he asked: “Are you there?” the answer would come: “Yes, of course, where else should I be?”

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**Who acts:** stag, you, answer · **What happens:** ask, be, come · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, you, answer), 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:pg3282:35:106
# text = Each time he asked: “Are you there?” the answer would come: “Yes, of course, where else should I be?”
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	21	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
24	else	else	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | stag |  |  |  | time | of course | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of course=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | would | the answer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *in a quote* | should | stag |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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 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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