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title: “We are certainly discovered,” said the Captain, “and shall be undon… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “We are certainly discovered,” said the Captain, “and shall be undone if we cannot find out who it is that knows our secret. Who acts: Captain, we. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Forty Thieves, sentence 69

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“We are certainly discovered,” said the Captain, “and shall be undone if we cannot find out who it is that knows our secret.

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**Who acts:** Captain, we · **What happens:** discover, say, undo, not find out, be · **To what, where:** We · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Forty Thieves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Captain, we), 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:pg503:34:69
# text = “We are certainly discovered,” said the Captain, “and shall be undone if we cannot find out who it is that knows our secret.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Captain	Captain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	undone	undo	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **discover** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | We |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Captain |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **undo** *in a quote* | shall · passive | the Captain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **not** **find out** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | know *property* | tree rules |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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