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title: ‘What you have already told me,’ answered the king, ‘is so strange t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘What you have already told me,’ answered the king, ‘is so strange that I cannot imagine what more there is to tell, but go on with your story.’ Who acts: ‘, I. 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 cla
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 88

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‘What you have already told me,’ answered the king, ‘is so strange that I cannot imagine what more there is to tell, but go on with your story.’

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**Who acts:** ‘, I · **What happens:** tell, answer, be, not imagine, go on · **To what, where:** you, me, king · **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), 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:pg3454:3:88
# text = ‘What you have already told me,’ answered the king, ‘is so strange that I cannot imagine what more there is to tell, but go on with your story.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	already	already	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	‘	‘	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
25	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	26	expl	_	_
26	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive |  | you | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the king |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | ‘ |  |  |  |  | strange *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **imagine** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **go on** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with your story | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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