--- title: ‘What do you mean?’ cried Moti, with his mouth full of rice, ‘it’s m… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘What do you mean?’ cried Moti, with his mouth full of rice, ‘it’s my horse; I paid you fifty pieces of silver for it--quite a bargain, I’m sure!’ Who acts: you, Moti, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Moti, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:15:58 # text = ‘What do you mean?’ cried Moti, with his mouth full of rice, ‘it’s my horse; I paid you fifty pieces of silver for it--quite a bargain, I’m sure!’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 5 obj _ _ 3 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Moti Moti PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 21 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 -- -- PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 36 det:predet _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 bargain bargain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 40 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 39 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mean** | present · do-support | you | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Moti | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **pay** | past | I | | you | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient piece=Asset | | 4 | **be** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/15/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/15/59/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/15/)