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title: ‘Have I not been your prisoner these two years, and who have I seen… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Have I not been your prisoner these two years, and who have I seen except the gaolers sent by you?’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 100

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‘Have I not been your prisoner these two years, and who have I seen except the gaolers sent by you?’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, not be, see, send · **To what, where:** prisoner, gaolers

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 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), 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:pg7277:3:100
# text = ‘Have I not been your prisoner these two years, and who have I seen except the gaolers sent by you?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
17	except	except	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	gaolers	gaoler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  | year |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | participle | I | your prisoner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | except the gaolers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **send** | participle |  | the gaolers *not said here* |  |  |  | by you | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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