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title: The one was saying to the other as the weary youth lay down, ‘Is the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The one was saying to the other as the weary youth lay down, ‘Is there anything the least wonderful or remarkable about this neighbourhood?’ Who acts: one, weary youth, anything. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1, sentence 28

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The one was saying to the other as the weary youth lay down, ‘Is there anything the least wonderful or remarkable about this neighbourhood?’

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**Who acts:** one, weary youth, anything · **What happens:** say, lay down, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, weary youth, anything), 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:pg640:14:28
# text = The one was saying to the other as the weary youth lay down, ‘Is there anything the least wonderful or remarkable about this neighbourhood?’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	nsubj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | the one |  |  |  |  | to the other | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to other=Experiencer clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lay down** | present | the weary youth |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | present | anything |  |  | there |  |  | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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