--- title: ‘But of a truth, Kai, no man ever confessed an adventure so much to… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘But of a truth, Kai, no man ever confessed an adventure so much to his own dishonour, and strange indeed it seems that none other man have I ever met that knew of the black man, and the knight and the shower.’ Who acts: man, it, none man, I. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, it, none man, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:30:64 # text = ‘But of a truth, Kai, no man ever confessed an adventure so much to his own dishonour, and strange indeed it seems that none other man have I ever met that knew of the black man, and the knight and the shower.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 Kai Kai PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 10 det _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ _ 12 confessed confess VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 13 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 dishonour dishonour NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 parataxis _ _ 24 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 27 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 30 compound _ _ 29 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 34 advmod _ _ 34 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 parataxis _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 shower shower NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **confess** | past | no man | a adventure | horse's own dishonour | | ever | | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to dishonour=Recipient | | 2 | **seem** | present | it | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | present | none man | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **meet** | past | I | | | | ever | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **know** | past | I *not said here* | | | | | of the black man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus | | 6 | **dishonour** | | horse | | | | | | nom dishonour «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/65/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/)