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title: “I shall explain myself fully when you bring here the negro whom you… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “I shall explain myself fully when you bring here the negro whom you hide beneath your throne.” Who acts: person, you. 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 30

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“I shall explain myself fully when you bring here the negro whom you hide beneath your throne.”

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**Who acts:** person, you · **What happens:** explain, bring, hide · **To what, where:** person, negro, throne

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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 (person, you), 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:pg3282:6:30
# text = “I shall explain myself fully when you bring here the negro whom you hide beneath your throne.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	fully	fully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hide	hide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explain** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | shall | person | person |  |  |  | fully *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | you | the negro |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent negro=Theme |
| 3 | **hide** *in a quote* | present | you | the negro |  | your throne |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whom=Patient beneath throne=Location |

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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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