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title: The other had worked at the laws of corporation, and knew by heart w… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The other had worked at the laws of corporation, and knew by heart what every member of the corporation ought to know, so that he thought he could quite well speak on State matters and give his opinion. Who acts: other, member. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 87

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The other had worked at the laws of corporation, and knew by heart what every member of the corporation ought to know, so that he thought he could quite well speak on State matters and give his opinion.

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**Who acts:** other, member · **What happens:** work, know, think, speak, give, opine · **To what, where:** State matters, opinion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other, member), 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:pg640:50:87
# text = The other had worked at the laws of corporation, and knew by heart what every member of the corporation ought to know, so that he thought he could quite well speak on State matters and give his opinion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	laws	law	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
16	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	member	member	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	corporation	corporation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	28	mark	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	State	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	matters	matter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	conj	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | past · perfect | the other |  |  |  |  | at the laws of corporation | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at law=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **know** | ought | every member of the corporation |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | member |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | could | member |  |  | State matters |  | well *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **give** | infinitive | member *not said here* | member's opinion |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme |
| 7 | **opine** |  | member |  |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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