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title: But perhaps you may have heard of Father Florence Conry, as pleasant… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But perhaps you may have heard of Father Florence Conry, as pleasant a man as one would wish to drink with of a hot summer’s day; and he had rhymed out all about the dancing fishes so neatly that it would be a thousand pities not to give you his verses; so here they are in English: Who acts: you, on
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 36

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But perhaps you may have heard of Father Florence Conry, as pleasant a man as one would wish to drink with of a hot summer’s day; and he had rhymed out all about the dancing fishes so neatly that it would be a thousand pities not to give you his verses; so here they are in English:

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**Who acts:** you, one, Florence, dancing, thousand pities, men · **What happens:** hear, wish, drink, rhyme out, fish, be · **To what, where:** thousand pities, verses, you, English

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, one, Florence, dancing), 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:pg3454:18:36
# text = But perhaps you may have heard of Father Florence Conry, as pleasant a man as one would wish to drink with of a hot summer’s day; and he had rhymed out all about the dancing fishes so neatly that it would be a thousand pities not to give you his verses; so here they are in English:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Florence	Florence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	Conry	Conry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	one	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	rhymed	rhyme	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
34	out	out	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
36	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	dancing	dancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
39	fishes	fish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
40	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
45	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	cop	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	48	nummod	_	_
48	pities	pity	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj	_	_
49	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	advcl	_	_
52	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	iobj	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	verses	verse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	so	so	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
58	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
59	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | may · perfect | you |  |  | here |  | of Father Florence; perhaps *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of florence=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wish** | would | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **drink** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rhyme out** | past · perfect | Florence |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **fish** | present | Florence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the dancing; all, neatly *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent about dancing=Location |
| 6 | **is a** | would | dancing | thousand pities |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **not** **give** | to-infinitive | thousand pities | pity's verses | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient verse=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | present | men *= man* |  |  | English |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **verse** |  | pity |  |  |  |  |  | nom verse «communication transitive»: poss=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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