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title: ‘Marry you?’ exclaimed he, ‘but--but--I am not yet twenty, and you -… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Marry you?’ exclaimed he, ‘but--but--I am not yet twenty, and you --why, you must be a hundred at least! Who acts: I, prisoner. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 64

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‘Marry you?’ exclaimed he, ‘but--but--I am not yet twenty, and you --why, you must be a hundred at least!

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**Who acts:** I, prisoner · **What happens:** marry, exclaim, not be, be · **To what, where:** you, twenty, hundred, least · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prisoner), 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:pg3454:3:64
# text = ‘Marry you?’ exclaimed he, ‘but--but--I am not yet twenty, and you --why, you must be a hundred at least!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
15	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	conj	_	_
22	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | I | twenty |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | must | prisoner | a hundred |  | least |  |  | 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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