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title: I had no idea--or, of course, I would not have spoken--but’--and her… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 9

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I had no idea--or, of course, I would not have spoken--but’--and here she stopped and fumbled with her apron, as if she was greatly embarrassed.

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**Who acts:** I, Daughter · **What happens:** have, not speak, stop, fumble, be · **To what, where:** idea · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Daughter), 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:pg3454:19:9
# text = I had no idea--or, of course, I would not have spoken--but’--and here she stopped and fumbled with her apron, as if she was greatly embarrassed.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
9	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux	_	_
15	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fumbled	fumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	embarrassed	embarrassed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I | no idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | would · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stop** | past | Daughter |  |  | here |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **fumble** | past | Daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Daughter's apron | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Daughter |  |  |  |  | embarrassed, greatly *property* | tree rules |

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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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