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title: ‘Verily,’ said she, ‘there is no reason I should succour this reptil… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Verily,’ said she, ‘there is no reason I should succour this reptile, except to prevent discredit unto thee.’ Who acts: ‘, reason, 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 82

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‘Verily,’ said she, ‘there is no reason I should succour this reptile, except to prevent discredit unto thee.’

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**Who acts:** ‘, reason, I · **What happens:** say, be, succour, prevent · **To what, where:** reptile, discredit · **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 (‘, reason, 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:pg3454:35:82
# text = ‘Verily,’ said she, ‘there is no reason I should succour this reptile, except to prevent discredit unto thee.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Verily	verily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	succour	succour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	reptile	reptile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	except	except	ADP	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
22	discredit	discredit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ‘ |  |  |  |  | verily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | present | no reason |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **succour** | should | I | this reptile |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | discredit |  |  |  | unto thee | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer discredit=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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