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title: ‘Thou hast aimed well this time too,’ said the giant, as the king’s… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Thou hast aimed well this time too,’ said the giant, as the king’s son laid his hand on her shoulder, ‘but perhaps we may meet some other way’; and though he pretended to laugh, the bride saw a gleam in his eye which warned her of danger. Who acts: son, we, bride, eye. A sentence of «The Lilac Fair
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 37

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‘Thou hast aimed well this time too,’ said the giant, as the king’s son laid his hand on her shoulder, ‘but perhaps we may meet some other way’; and though he pretended to laugh, the bride saw a gleam in his eye which warned her of danger.

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**Who acts:** son, we, bride, eye · **What happens:** aim, say, lay, meet, pretend, laugh · **To what, where:** Thou, giant, hand, shoulder, other way, gleam · **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 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, we, bride, eye), 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:pg3454:29:37
# text = ‘Thou hast aimed well this time too,’ said the giant, as the king’s son laid his hand on her shoulder, ‘but perhaps we may meet some other way’; and though he pretended to laugh, the bride saw a gleam in his eye which warned her of danger.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	aimed	aim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
33	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
34	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
39	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
53	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	54	nsubj	_	_
54	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	acl:relcl	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aim** | present · passive |  | Thou |  |  | time | well *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay** | past | the king's son | son's hand |  | giant's shoulder |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 4 | **meet** | may | we | some other way |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **pretend** | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **laugh** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **see** | past | the bride | a gleam |  | son's eye |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gleam=Stimulus |
| 8 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | son's eye |  | bride |  |  | of danger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient of danger=Topic |

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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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