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title: “In which of these shall I dip you?” he asked; and she made haste to… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “In which of these shall I dip you?” he asked; and she made haste to answer: “In the liquid gold,” for she was no more modest than she was good and kind. Who acts: father, Lizina. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 66

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“In which of these shall I dip you?” he asked; and she made haste to answer: “In the liquid gold,” for she was no more modest than she was good and kind.

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**Who acts:** father, Lizina · **What happens:** dip, ask, make, answer, not be, be · **To what, where:** you, haste, liquid gold · **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 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, Lizina), 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:pg2435:36:66
# text = “In which of these shall I dip you?” he asked; and she made haste to answer: “In the liquid gold,” for she was no more modest than she was good and kind.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	nmod	_	_
6	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dip	dip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	In	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	liquid	liquid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	no	no	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	modest	modest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
35	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advcl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** *in a quote* | shall | father |  | you |  |  |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent which=Theme you=Destination |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **make** | past | Lizina | haste |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haste=Product |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | Lizina *not said here* | haste *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **is** | past | Lizina |  |  | the liquid gold |  | modest *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | past | Lizina |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **be** |  | Lizina *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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