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title: To be sure, Jegu only replied roughly that he didn’t know what she w… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To be sure, Jegu only replied roughly that he didn’t know what she was talking about, but this answer made her feel all the more certain that it was he and nobody else. Who acts: Jegu, dance, answer. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, with its depende
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 52

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To be sure, Jegu only replied roughly that he didn’t know what she was talking about, but this answer made her feel all the more certain that it was he and nobody else.

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**Who acts:** Jegu, dance, answer · **What happens:** be, reply, not know, talk about, make, feel · **To what, where:** dance, Jegu · **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 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jegu, dance, answer), 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:pg3454:37:52
# text = To be sure, Jegu only replied roughly that he didn’t know what she was talking about, but this answer made her feel all the more certain that it was he and nobody else.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	talking	talk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
18	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	29	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	33	conj	_	_
36	else	else	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Jegu |  |  |  |  | roughly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past · do-support | Jegu |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **talk about** | past · progressive | dance |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** | past | this answer | dance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **feel** | infinitive | dance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | certain *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **is a** | past | answer | Jegu |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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