--- title: ‘I am not come,’ replied Kilweh, ‘for meat and drink, but to obtain… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I am not come,’ replied Kilweh, ‘for meat and drink, but to obtain a boon, and if thou grant it me I will pay it back, and will carry thy praise to the four winds of heaven. Who acts: I, Kilweh, thou, thy. 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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 (I, Kilweh, thou, thy), 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:pg3454:38:59 # text = ‘I am not come,’ replied Kilweh, ‘for meat and drink, but to obtain a boon, and if thou grant it me I will pay it back, and will carry thy praise to the four winds of heaven. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 Kilweh Kilweh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 appos _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 obtain obtain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 boon boon NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 24 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 26 nsubj _ _ 26 grant grant VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 back back ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 carry carry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 38 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 praise praise NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 four four NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **come** | present | I | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Kilweh | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | | a boon | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset boon=Theme | | 4 | **grant** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | boon | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent it=Goal i=Theme | | 5 | **pay back** | future | I | boon | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | | 6 | **carry** | future | | thy praise | | the four winds of heaven | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent praise=Theme to wind=Destination | | 7 | **praise** | | thy | | | | | | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **wind** | | | heaven | | | | | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | 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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/38/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/38/60/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/38/)