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title: ‘It is my only treasure, and I set great store by it,’ answered the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘It is my only treasure, and I set great store by it,’ answered the boy, pretending to hesitate. Who acts: whistle, I, only treasure. 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 63

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‘It is my only treasure, and I set great store by it,’ answered the boy, pretending to hesitate.

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**Who acts:** whistle, I, only treasure · **What happens:** be, set, answer, pretend, hesitate · **To what, where:** only treasure, great store, boy

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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 (whistle, I, only treasure), 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:pg3454:12:63
# text = ‘It is my only treasure, and I set great store by it,’ answered the boy, pretending to hesitate.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	set	set	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	store	store	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
17	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	hesitate	hesitate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | whistle | my only treasure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | present | I | great store |  |  |  | by whistle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme by it=Destination |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | my only treasure |  | the boy |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality |
| 4 | **pretend** | gerund | my only treasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hesitate** | to-infinitive | my only treasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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 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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