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title: They heard all the gossip of the place, and many wonderful things we… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They heard all the gossip of the place, and many wonderful things were related and discussed. Who acts: musicians, many wonderful things, place. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Musicians, sentence 6

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They heard all the gossip of the place, and many wonderful things were related and discussed.

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**Who acts:** musicians, many wonderful things, place · **What happens:** hear, be, discuss, gossip · **To what, where:** gossip

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Musicians. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (musicians, many wonderful things, place), 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:pg7277:55:6
# text = They heard all the gossip of the place, and many wonderful things were related and discussed.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gossip	gossip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	related	related	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	discussed	discuss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | musicians *= musician* | all gossip of the place |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer gossip=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | many wonderful things |  |  |  |  | related *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **discuss** *speech: other* | past | musicians *= musician* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn chit\_chat-37.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gossip** |  | the place |  |  |  |  |  | nom gossip «communication intransitive»: of=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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