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title: ‘I shall make shoes as once I did,’ replied he; and he got all the f… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I shall make shoes as once I did,’ replied he; and he got all the finest leather in the town and caused gilded clasps to be made for the shoes, till everyone flocked to buy, and all the shoemakers in the town were idle and banded together in anger to kill him. Who acts: I, castle, everyone, shoemak
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 57

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‘I shall make shoes as once I did,’ replied he; and he got all the finest leather in the town and caused gilded clasps to be made for the shoes, till everyone flocked to buy, and all the shoemakers in the town were idle and banded together in anger to kill him.

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**Who acts:** I, castle, everyone, shoemakers · **What happens:** make, do, reply, get, cause, gild · **To what, where:** shoes, finest leather, town, gilded clasps, anger, castle · **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 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, castle, everyone, shoemakers), 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:pg3454:35:57
# text = ‘I shall make shoes as once I did,’ replied he; and he got all the finest leather in the town and caused gilded clasps to be made for the shoes, till everyone flocked to buy, and all the shoemakers in the town were idle and banded together in anger to kill him.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	21	amod	_	_
21	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
27	gilded	gild	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	clasps	clasp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	38	nsubj	_	_
38	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
43	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	45	det:predet	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	shoemakers	shoemaker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
50	idle	idle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
52	banded	band	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	conj	_	_
53	together	together	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	anger	anger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | shall | I | shoes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Product |
| 2 | **do** | past | I |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | castle |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **get** | past | castle | all finest leather |  | the town |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leather=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cause** | past | castle *not said here* | gilded clasps |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition clasp=Patient |
| 6 | **gild** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive · passive | castle *not said here* | gilded clasps *not said here* |  |  |  | for the shoes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: for shoe=Asset |
| 8 | **flock** | past | everyone |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **buy** | to-infinitive | everyone *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **is** | past | all shoemakers in the town |  |  |  |  | idle *property* | tree rules |
| 11 | **band together** | participle | all shoemakers in the town *not said here* |  |  | anger |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 12 | **kill** | to-infinitive | all shoemakers in the town *not said here* | castle |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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