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title: “Is there anyone inside?” cried the young man in his loudest voice;… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Is there anyone inside?” cried the young man in his loudest voice; “anyone who will give a knight hospitality? Who acts: young man. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, 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 5, sentence 6

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“Is there anyone inside?” cried the young man in his loudest voice; “anyone who will give a knight hospitality?

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**Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** be, give · **To what, where:** knight hospitality · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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:pg3282:38:6
# text = “Is there anyone inside?” cried the young man in his loudest voice; “anyone who will give a knight hospitality?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
5	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *speech: express* | present | the young man |  |  |  |  | anyone *obl*; cry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** *in a quote* | future |  | a knight hospitality |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hospitality=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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