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title: His words made me sorrowful and fearful of myself, which the man per… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: His words made me sorrowful and fearful of myself, which the man perceived, and added, “If thou meanest truly what thou sayest, and desirest earnestly to prove thy valour, and not to boast vainly that none can overcome thee, I have somewhat to show thee. Who acts: words, man, thou, none. A sentence 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 21

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His words made me sorrowful and fearful of myself, which the man perceived, and added, “If thou meanest truly what thou sayest, and desirest earnestly to prove thy valour, and not to boast vainly that none can overcome thee, I have somewhat to show thee.

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**Who acts:** words, man, thou, none, I, hunger · **What happens:** make, perceive, add, meanest, say, desire · **To what, where:** me, valour, thee · **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 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, man, thou, none), 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:pg3454:30:21
# text = His words made me sorrowful and fearful of myself, which the man perceived, and added, “If thou meanest truly what thou sayest, and desirest earnestly to prove thy valour, and not to boast vainly that none can overcome thee, I have somewhat to show thee.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	22	nsubj	_	_
22	meanest	meanest	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
23	truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	26	obj	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sayest	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	desirest	desire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
30	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
33	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	39	advmod	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	boast	boast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
40	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
42	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	44	nsubj	_	_
43	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
45	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
49	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
52	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | hunger's words | me |  |  |  | sorrowful *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product |
| 2 | **perceive** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **meanest** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
| 6 | **desire** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | earnestly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **prove** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | thy valour |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valour=Theme |
| 8 | **not** **boast** *speech: other* *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | vainly *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **overcome** *in a quote* | can | none | thee |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thou=Theme |
| 10 | **have** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **show** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | thee |  |  |  | somewhat *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient |
| 12 | **word** |  | hunger |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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