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title: After they were gone the King said to the Lion: ‘There now--you have… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After they were gone the King said to the Lion: ‘There now--you have been telling lies--you see yourself they walk like men.’ Who acts: King, you, peas. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 32

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After they were gone the King said to the Lion: ‘There now--you have been telling lies--you see yourself they walk like men.’

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**Who acts:** King, you, peas · **What happens:** go, say, tell, see, walk · **To what, where:** peas, Lion, lies, yourself · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, peas), 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:pg7277:43:32
# text = After they were gone the King said to the Lion: ‘There now--you have been telling lies--you see yourself they walk like men.’
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	aux	_	_
19	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	parataxis	_	_
20	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
24	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	walk	walk	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · passive |  | peas *= pea* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  | the Lion |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lion=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · progressive | you | lies |  | there | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient |
| 4 | **see** | present | you | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer yourself=Stimulus |
| 5 | **walk** | present | peas *= pea* |  |  |  |  | like men | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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