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title: The two young fellows also told now what they had heard and seen in… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The two young fellows also told now what they had heard and seen in the Queen’s room, for before this they had been afraid to say anything about it, on account of the Queen’s power. Who acts: two young fellows, fellows. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boa
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 64

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The two young fellows also told now what they had heard and seen in the Queen’s room, for before this they had been afraid to say anything about it, on account of the Queen’s power.

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**Who acts:** two young fellows, fellows · **What happens:** tell, hear, see, be, say, account · **To what, where:** room, anything, account, power · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two young fellows, fellows), 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:pg640:47:64
# text = The two young fellows also told now what they had heard and seen in the Queen’s room, for before this they had been afraid to say anything about it, on account of the Queen’s power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	obj	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	cop	_	_
26	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	obj	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the two young fellows |  |  |  | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | fellows *= fellow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | participle | fellows *= fellow* *not said here* |  |  | the Queen's room |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | fellows *= fellow* |  |  |  |  | for this; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | fellows *= fellow* *not said here* | anything |  | account of the Queen's power |  | about room | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent anything=Topic |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | the Queen's power |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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