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title: You sold us a ram knowing full well that it was a wolf, and we came… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You sold us a ram knowing full well that it was a wolf, and we came here to-day to pay you out for it. Who acts: You, ram, manner, we. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 61

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You sold us a ram knowing full well that it was a wolf, and we came here to-day to pay you out for it.

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**Who acts:** You, ram, manner, we · **What happens:** sell, know, be, come, pay out · **To what, where:** ram, us, wolf, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, ram, manner, we), 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:pg3454:12:61
# text = You sold us a ram knowing full well that it was a wolf, and we came here to-day to pay you out for it.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ram	ram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | You | a ram | us |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient ram=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | a ram *not said here* |  |  |  |  | full, well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past | manner | a wolf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | we |  |  | here | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pay out** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | you |  |  |  | for manner | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Asset for it=Theme |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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