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title: And my be ‘tis boiling and eating my own grandchild I’ll be, with a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And my be ‘tis boiling and eating my own grandchild I’ll be, with a bit of salt butter, and I not knowing it! Who acts: tis boiling, I. 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 62

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And my be ‘tis boiling and eating my own grandchild I’ll be, with a bit of salt butter, and I not knowing it!

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**Who acts:** tis boiling, I · **What happens:** be, eat, 'll, not know · **To what, where:** tis boiling, own grandchild, grandchild

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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 (tis boiling, I), 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:pg3454:18:62
# text = And my be ‘tis boiling and eating my own grandchild I’ll be, with a bit of salt butter, and I not knowing it!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	grandchild	grandchild	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’ll	'll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive |  | my tis boiling |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | gerund | my tis boiling | my own grandchild |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandchild=Patient |
| 3 | **'ll** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a bit of salt butter | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **know** | gerund | I | grandchild |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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