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title: ‘Poor innocent,’ she murmured, ‘he does not know what he is saying,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Poor innocent,’ she murmured, ‘he does not know what he is saying, but I will cut him a slice of that new wheaten loaf,’ and so she did, and Peronnik ate up every crumb, and declared that nobody less than the bishop’s baker could have baked it. Who acts: woman, Peronnik, I. A sentence of «The Lilac
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 67

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‘Poor innocent,’ she murmured, ‘he does not know what he is saying, but I will cut him a slice of that new wheaten loaf,’ and so she did, and Peronnik ate up every crumb, and declared that nobody less than the bishop’s baker could have baked it.

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**Who acts:** woman, Peronnik, I · **What happens:** murmur, not know, say, cut, do, eat up · **To what, where:** slice, Peronnik, crumb, nobody, new wheaten loaf · **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 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, Peronnik, 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:pg3454:26:67
# text = ‘Poor innocent,’ she murmured, ‘he does not know what he is saying, but I will cut him a slice of that new wheaten loaf,’ and so she did, and Peronnik ate up every crumb, and declared that nobody less than the bishop’s baker could have baked it.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	slice	slice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	nsubj	_	_
28	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	wheaten	wheaten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
35	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
40	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	det	_	_
43	crumb	crumb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
47	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
48	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	48	amod	_	_
50	than	than	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’s	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	baker	baker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
55	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
56	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	aux	_	_
57	baked	bake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	ccomp	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present · do-support | Peronnik |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · progressive | Peronnik |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cut** | future | I | a slice of new wheaten loaf | Peronnik |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary slice=Product |
| 5 | **do** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **eat up** | past | Peronnik | every crumb |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crumb=Patient |
| 7 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | Peronnik *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 8 | **bake** | could · perfect · passive |  | nobody |  |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Product |
| 9 | **slice** |  |  | new wheaten loaf |  |  |  |  | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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