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title: ‘I know that wandering fool under the tree there, who has come so fa… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I know that wandering fool under the tree there, who has come so far without finding what he seeks. Who acts: I, Solomon. 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 28

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‘I know that wandering fool under the tree there, who has come so far without finding what he seeks.

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**Who acts:** I, Solomon · **What happens:** know, wonder, come, find, seek · **To what, where:** fool, tree · **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 (I, Solomon), 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:pg640:5:28
# text = ‘I know that wandering fool under the tree there, who has come so far without finding what he seeks.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
17	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seeks	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | I *not said here* | fool |  | the tree |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **seek** | present | Solomon |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |

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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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