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title: ‘I am persuaded,’ said the countess, ‘that this man and no other cha… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am persuaded,’ said the countess, ‘that this man and no other chased the soul from the body of my lord.’ Who acts: man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 20

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‘I am persuaded,’ said the countess, ‘that this man and no other chased the soul from the body of my lord.’

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** persuade, say, chase · **To what, where:** I, countess, soul, body · **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 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg3454:31:20
# text = ‘I am persuaded,’ said the countess, ‘that this man and no other chased the soul from the body of my lord.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	persuaded	persuade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
18	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **persuade** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the countess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **chase** | past | this man | the soul |  | the body of my lord |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent soul=Theme from body=Trajectory |

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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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