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title: “You who are experienced men and versed in affairs, did you ever kno… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “You who are experienced men and versed in affairs, did you ever know or hear and see anything of this matter?” Who acts: You, experienced men. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 20

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“You who are experienced men and versed in affairs, did you ever know or hear and see anything of this matter?”

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**Who acts:** You, experienced men · **What happens:** be, verse, know, hear, see · **To what, where:** experienced men, affairs, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, experienced men), 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:pg3282:6:20
# text = “You who are experienced men and versed in affairs, did you ever know or hear and see anything of this matter?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	experienced	experienced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	versed	verse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	affairs	affair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | experienced men |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **verse** *in a quote* | participle | You *not said here* |  |  | affairs |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *in a quote* | past · do-support | experienced men |  |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **hear** *in a quote* | infinitive | experienced men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | experienced men *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |

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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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