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title: As on former occasions, the quick-eared comrade had overheard the Ki… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As on former occasions, the quick-eared comrade had overheard the King’s command and repeated it to the Simpleton. Who acts: King. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 129

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As on former occasions, the quick-eared comrade had overheard the King’s command and repeated it to the Simpleton.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** overhear, repeat, command · **To what, where:** eared comrade, command, Simpleton · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (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:pg640:35:129
# text = As on former occasions, the quick-eared comrade had overheard the King’s command and repeated it to the Simpleton.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	eared	eared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	overheard	overhear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overhear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the eared comrade |  |  |  | as former occasions | tree rules |
| 2 | **repeat** | past |  | command | the Simpleton |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to simpleton=Recipient |
| 3 | **command** |  | the King |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «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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