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title: Noticing two young people talking together, he drew near thinking th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Noticing two young people talking together, he drew near thinking that he might get some explanation of what puzzled him. Who acts: Prince, two young people. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 9

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Noticing two young people talking together, he drew near thinking that he might get some explanation of what puzzled him.

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**Who acts:** Prince, two young people · **What happens:** notice, talk, draw, think, get, puzzle · **To what, where:** two young people, explanation, Prince · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, two young people), 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:pg640:17:9
# text = Noticing two young people talking together, he drew near thinking that he might get some explanation of what puzzled him.
1	Noticing	notice	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
5	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nmod	_	_
20	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | two young people |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus |
| 2 | **talk** | gerund | two young people *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **get** | might | Prince | some explanation |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer explanation=Stimulus |
| 6 | **puzzle** | past |  | Prince |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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