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title: ‘Yes, of course it is,’ said the man; ‘who else would it be?’ — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes, of course it is,’ said the man; ‘who else would it be?’ Who acts: course. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 43

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‘Yes, of course it is,’ said the man; ‘who else would it be?’

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**Who acts:** course · **What happens:** be, say · **To what, where:** man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course), 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:pg5615:14:43
# text = ‘Yes, of course it is,’ said the man; ‘who else would it be?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	10	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	7	advmod	_	_
5	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	fixed	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | course |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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