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title: ‘And suppose I were to give you more pounds than Marzinne ever dream… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘And suppose I were to give you more pounds than Marzinne ever dreamed of?’ whispered the sorcerer glancing round to make sure that no one overheard him. Who acts: I, Marzinne, sorcerer, one. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 7

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‘And suppose I were to give you more pounds than Marzinne ever dreamed of?’ whispered the sorcerer glancing round to make sure that no one overheard him.

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**Who acts:** I, Marzinne, sorcerer, one · **What happens:** suppose, give, dream, whisper, glance, make · **To what, where:** more pounds, you, sorcerer, Marzinne · **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 (I, Marzinne, sorcerer, one), 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:pg3454:26:7
# text = ‘And suppose I were to give you more pounds than Marzinne ever dreamed of?’ whispered the sorcerer glancing round to make sure that no one overheard him.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	Marzinne	Marzinne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
14	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
18	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	glancing	glance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
22	round	round	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	overheard	overhear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | past | I | more pounds | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pound=Theme |
| 3 | **dream** | past | Marzinne |  |  |  | ever |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past |  | the sorcerer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **glance** | gerund | the sorcerer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | the sorcerer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 7 | **overhear** | past | no one | Marzinne |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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