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title: Red said that he had just remembered the gold cloak, gold chess-boar… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Red said that he had just remembered the gold cloak, gold chess-board, and bright gold piece that the King had lost about a year before. Who acts: Red. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 86

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Red said that he had just remembered the gold cloak, gold chess-board, and bright gold piece that the King had lost about a year before.

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**Who acts:** Red · **What happens:** say, remember, lose · **To what, where:** gold cloak, bright gold piece · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Red), 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:pg640:42:86
# text = Red said that he had just remembered the gold cloak, gold chess-board, and bright gold piece that the King had lost about a year before.
1	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	remembered	remember	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
13	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | Red |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **remember** | past · perfect | Red | the gold cloak and gold chess board |  |  |  | bright gold piece *obl* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | past · perfect · passive |  | bright gold piece |  |  | year | before *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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