--- title: It is not every lady, may be, that would be after making such an off… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: It is not every lady, may be, that would be after making such an offer to a blind piper; therefore ‘twas only right in him to give her as good as she gave herself, so says Maurice: Who acts: drink, that, Maurice, fish. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/51/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/) / 51 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 51 It is not every lady, may be, that would be after making such an offer to a blind piper; therefore ‘twas only right in him to give her as good as she gave herself, so says Maurice: **Who acts:** drink, that, Maurice, fish · **What happens:** not be, be, give, say · **To what, where:** lady, fish, Maurice · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (drink, that, Maurice, fish), 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:pg3454:18:51 # text = It is not every lady, may be, that would be after making such an offer to a blind piper; therefore ‘twas only right in him to give her as good as she gave herself, so says Maurice: 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 nsubj _ _ 11 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 cop _ _ 13 after after SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 14 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 15 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 17 det:predet _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 offer offer NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 piper piper NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 24 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 twas twa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 parataxis _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 right right ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 in in SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 32 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 38 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 37 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 so so ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 42 Maurice maurice NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | drink | every lady | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | may | drink *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | would | that | | | | | to a blind piper; make *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | Maurice | | fish | | | good *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | | 5 | **give** | past | fish | | fish | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | drink *not said here* | Maurice | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent maurice=Topic | 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 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/50/) - next →: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/52/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/18/)