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title: Once more the sharp-eared comrade overheard the King’s words while h… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Once more the sharp-eared comrade overheard the King’s words while he was still talking to the courtier, and reported them to the Simpleton. Who acts: eared comrade, comrade, King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 101

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Once more the sharp-eared comrade overheard the King’s words while he was still talking to the courtier, and reported them to the Simpleton.

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**Who acts:** eared comrade, comrade, King · **What happens:** overhear, talk, report, word · **To what, where:** words, courtiers, Simpleton

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eared comrade, comrade, King), 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:pg640:35:101
# text = Once more the sharp-eared comrade overheard the King’s words while he was still talking to the courtier, and reported them to the Simpleton.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	eared	eared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	overheard	overhear	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	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	courtier	courtier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	reported	report	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overhear** | past | the eared comrade | the King's words |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **talk** | past · progressive | comrade |  |  |  | still | to the courtier | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to courtier=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **report** | past | the eared comrade *not said here* | courtiers *= courtier* | the Simpleton |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to simpleton=Recipient |
| 4 | **word** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «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 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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