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title: There was nothing that she did not seem to know, and as for songs sh… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: There was nothing that she did not seem to know, and as for songs she not only could sing those from every part of Brittany, but could compose them herself. Who acts: nothing, girl. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 85

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There was nothing that she did not seem to know, and as for songs she not only could sing those from every part of Brittany, but could compose them herself.

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**Who acts:** nothing, girl · **What happens:** be, not seem, know, not sing, compose · **To what, where:** songs, part

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, girl), 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:pg3454:32:85
# text = There was nothing that she did not seem to know, and as for songs she not only could sing those from every part of Brittany, but could compose them herself.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	nsubj	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Brittany	Brittany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	compose	compose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | nothing |  |  | there |  | as songs | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **seem** | past · do-support | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | could | girl | songs |  | every part of Brittany |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location that=Theme |
| 5 | **compose** | could | girl *not said here* | songs *= song* |  |  |  | girl *obl* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Result |

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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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