--- title: ‘But he would not do that,’ she continued softly, ‘and after all, if… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘But he would not do that,’ she continued softly, ‘and after all, if I had stayed on in your house, I should never have met the snake, nor have got my hand back again. Who acts: brother, news, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/57/) [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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/) / 57 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 57 ‘But he would not do that,’ she continued softly, ‘and after all, if I had stayed on in your house, I should never have met the snake, nor have got my hand back again. **Who acts:** brother, news, I · **What happens:** not do, continue, stay on, not meet, get · **To what, where:** that, snake, hand This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, news, I), 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:pg3454:22:57 # text = ‘But he would not do that,’ she continued softly, ‘and after all, if I had stayed on in your house, I should never have met the snake, nor have got my hand back again. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’ ' CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 12 softly softly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ‘ PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 16 after after ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 stayed stay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 23 on on ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 29 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 30 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 31 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux _ _ 32 met meet VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 38 cc _ _ 37 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 conj _ _ 39 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 back back ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 again again ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** | would | brother | that | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | | 2 | **continue** | past | news | | | | | softly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **stay on** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | I | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **meet** | should · perfect | I | the snake | | | after all | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Co-Agent | | 5 | **get** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | my hand | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/58/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/22/)