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title: I found by their discourse that everybody had got my name into their… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I found by their discourse that everybody had got my name into their mouth, though I kept silent as death during their discourse. Who acts: I, everybody, bags, my. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 73

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I found by their discourse that everybody had got my name into their mouth, though I kept silent as death during their discourse.

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**Who acts:** I, everybody, bags, my · **What happens:** find, get, keep, discourse, name · **To what, where:** discourse, mouth

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, everybody, bags, my), 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:pg540:8:73
# text = I found by their discourse that everybody had got my name into their mouth, though I kept silent as death during their discourse.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	discourse	discourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
7	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	during	during	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	discourse	discourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | I |  |  |  |  | by bags's discourse | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past · perfect | everybody | bags's discourse |  | bags's mouth |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus |
| 3 | **keep** | past | I |  |  |  | during bags's discourse | as death; silent *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **discourse** |  | bags *= bag* |  |  |  |  |  | nom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **name** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **discourse** |  | bags *= bag* |  |  |  |  |  | nom discourse «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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