--- title: ‘That is my married wife,’ he declared, ‘and no one else will I have… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘That is my married wife,’ he declared, ‘and no one else will I have,’ and at that very moment the spells fell off him, and never more would he be a hoodie. Who acts: That, married wife, one, spells. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, married wife, one, spells), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:37:9 # text = ‘That is my married wife,’ he declared, ‘and no one else will I have,’ and at that very moment the spells fell off him, and never more would he be a hoodie. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 married married ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 15 det _ _ 15 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 16 else else ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 25 very very ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 spells spell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 29 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 30 off off ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 34 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 35 advmod _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 40 amod _ _ 36 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 40 cop _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 hoodie hoodie NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | That | my married wife | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | my married wife | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **have** | future | no one | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fall off** | past | the spells | cook | | | moment | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient he=Extent | | 5 | **is a** | would | cook | a more hoodie | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/10/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/37/)