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title: 'That is true,' answered the giant; 'but I am not so foolish as to g… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'That is true,' answered the giant; 'but I am not so foolish as to give you that crown for nothing. Who acts: That, I. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 88

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'That is true,' answered the giant; 'but I am not so foolish as to give you that crown for nothing.

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**Who acts:** That, I · **What happens:** be, answer, not be, give · **To what, where:** giant, crown, you

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, I), 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:pg3027:25:88
# text = 'That is true,' answered the giant; 'but I am not so foolish as to give you that crown for nothing.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | That |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality |
| 3 | **not** **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | foolish *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | that crown | you |  |  | for nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient crown=Theme for nothing=Asset |

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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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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