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title: Only no one knew where the ring was hidden, nor was there any sorcer… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Only no one knew where the ring was hidden, nor was there any sorcerer or learned man to be found who would be able to explain the inscription. Who acts: one. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2), with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 13

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Only no one knew where the ring was hidden, nor was there any sorcerer or learned man to be found who would be able to explain the inscription.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** know, hide, be, learn, find, explain · **To what, where:** sorcerer, ring, man, inscription · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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:pg640:5:13
# text = Only no one knew where the ring was hidden, nor was there any sorcerer or learned man to be found who would be able to explain the inscription.
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	ccomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | no one | any sorcerer |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | past · passive |  | the ring |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **be** | past | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | past | no one *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |
| 6 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **explain** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  | the inscription |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent inscription=Topic |

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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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