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title: I can take,’ he added proudly, ‘any shape I choose, and even, which… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I can take,’ he added proudly, ‘any shape I choose, and even, which is much harder, be invisible if I want to.’ Who acts: I, Jegu. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 29

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I can take,’ he added proudly, ‘any shape I choose, and even, which is much harder, be invisible if I want to.’

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**Who acts:** I, Jegu · **What happens:** take, add, choose, be, want

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Jegu), 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:pg3454:37:29
# text = I can take,’ he added proudly, ‘any shape I choose, and even, which is much harder, be invisible if I want to.’
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	choose	choose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	even	even	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	much	much	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
25	invisible	invisible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
26	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Jegu |  |  |  |  | proudly *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **choose** | present | I |  |  |  |  | ‘ any shape | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | invisible *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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