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title: ‘I know nothing of making shoes,’ answered Pryderi, who in truth des… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I know nothing of making shoes,’ answered Pryderi, who in truth despised so peaceful a craft. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 23

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‘I know nothing of making shoes,’ answered Pryderi, who in truth despised so peaceful a craft.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** know, make, answer, despise · **To what, where:** nothing, shoes, Pryderi

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. 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:pg3454:35:23
# text = ‘I know nothing of making shoes,’ answered Pryderi, who in truth despised so peaceful a craft.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	despised	despise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | I | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | gerund |  | shoes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Pryderi |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pryderi=Eventuality |
| 4 | **despise** | participle · passive |  | Pryderi |  |  |  | peaceful *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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