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title: In what way he learned it is beyond my knowledge for he was mighty c… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In what way he learned it is beyond my knowledge for he was mighty cautious about telling how he came by so wonderful a tune. Who acts: Maurice. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 6

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In what way he learned it is beyond my knowledge for he was mighty cautious about telling how he came by so wonderful a tune.

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**Who acts:** Maurice · **What happens:** learn, be, tell, come · **To what, where:** way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Maurice), 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:pg3454:18:6
# text = In what way he learned it is beyond my knowledge for he was mighty cautious about telling how he came by so wonderful a tune.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	cautious	cautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	advcl	_	_
16	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Maurice | way |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | way |  | beyond my knowledge | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Maurice |  |  |  |  | cautious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Maurice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **come** | past | Maurice |  |  |  |  | wonderful *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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