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title: I was just thinking what good snowshoes it would make,” answered the… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I was just thinking what good snowshoes it would make,” answered the fox in an absent voice, as if he was not thinking of what he was saying. Who acts: I, good snowshoes, fox. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 67

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I was just thinking what good snowshoes it would make,” answered the fox in an absent voice, as if he was not thinking of what he was saying.

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**Who acts:** I, good snowshoes, fox · **What happens:** think, make, answer, not think, say · **To what, where:** fox, absent voice · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, good snowshoes, fox), 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:pg2435:24:67
# text = I was just thinking what good snowshoes it would make,” answered the fox in an absent voice, as if he was not thinking of what he was saying.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	snowshoes	snowshoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	absent	absent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | would | good snowshoes |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset what=Product |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past |  |  | the fox | a absent voice |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality |
| 4 | **not** **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past · progressive | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past · progressive | fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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