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title: Certainly this kaftan is a very fine one, but I should like to know… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly this kaftan is a very fine one, but I should like to know what master taught this young man how to make clothes.” Who acts: kaftan, I, master. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 58

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Certainly this kaftan is a very fine one, but I should like to know what master taught this young man how to make clothes.”

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**Who acts:** kaftan, I, master · **What happens:** be, like, know, teach, make · **To what, where:** fine one, young man, clothes · **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 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kaftan, I, master), 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:pg2435:35:58
# text = Certainly this kaftan is a very fine one, but I should like to know what master taught this young man how to make clothes.”
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	kaftan	kaftan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	18	obj	_	_
17	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | this kaftan | a fine one |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **like** | should | I | a fine one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | master |  | this young man |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient man=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | master *not said here* | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset clothes=Product |

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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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