--- title: ‘I’m no ways particular,’ says Maurice; ‘I drink anything, barring r… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I’m no ways particular,’ says Maurice; ‘I drink anything, barring raw water; but if it’s all the same to you, Mister Dorman, may be you wouldn’t lend me the loan of a glass of whisky.’ Who acts: I, Maurice, you. 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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 (I, Maurice, you), 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:pg3454:18:21 # text = ‘I’m no ways particular,’ says Maurice; ‘I drink anything, barring raw water; but if it’s all the same to you, Mister Dorman, may be you wouldn’t lend me the loan of a glass of whisky.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’m be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 5 det _ _ 5 ways way NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 particular particular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 9 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 10 Maurice Maurice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 drink drink VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 15 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 barring bar VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 18 raw raw ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 27 det:predet _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 Mister Mister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 32 Dorman Dorman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 34 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 39 cop _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 38 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 lend lend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 40 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 iobj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 loan loan NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 glass glass NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 whisky whisky NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | present | I | no ways | | | | particular *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot way=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Maurice | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** | present | I | anything | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | | 4 | **bar** | gerund | I *not said here* | raw water | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer water=Theme | | 5 | **not** **is** | would | you | | me | | | lend *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **loan** | | | a glass of whisky | | | | | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/22/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/)