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title: I have just found his dead body lying at the Palace gate.’ — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have just found his dead body lying at the Palace gate.’ Who acts: I, dead body. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 48

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I have just found his dead body lying at the Palace gate.’

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**Who acts:** I, dead body · **What happens:** find, lie · **To what, where:** dead body, Palace gate

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, dead body), 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:pg640:49:48
# text = I have just found his dead body lying at the Palace gate.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Palace	Palace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present · perfect | I | brother's dead body |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | brother's dead body *not said here* |  |  | the Palace gate |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at gate=Location |

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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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