--- title: ‘It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest deem i… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest deem it will not be easy,’ answered Kilweh, thinking of Ossol, under whose feet the highest mountain became straightway a plain, but Yspaddaden paid no heed, and continued: Who acts: this, thou, feet, Yspaddaden. 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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 (this, thou, feet, Yspaddaden), 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:pg3454:39:46 # text = ‘It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest deem it will not be easy,’ answered Kilweh, thinking of Ossol, under whose feet the highest mountain became straightway a plain, but Yspaddaden paid no heed, and continued: 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 expl _ _ 3 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 5 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 ccomp _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 compass compass NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ _ 10 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 although although SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 nsubj _ _ 14 mayest may AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 deem deem VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 expl _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 19 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 20 cop _ _ 20 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 23 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 Kilweh Kilweh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 Ossol Ossol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 under under ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 amod _ _ 35 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 37 straightway straightway ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 xcomp _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 plain plain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 Yspaddaden Yspaddaden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 paid pay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 det _ _ 45 heed heed NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | future | this | compass | | | | for me; easy *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **deem** | may | thou | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **not** **is** | future | thou *not said here* | | | | | easy *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | | Kilweh | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kilweh=Eventuality | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | | | | | | of Ossol | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **become** | past | feet | | | | | straightway *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **pay** | past | Yspaddaden | no heed | | | | | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | | 8 | **continue** | past | Yspaddaden *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/47/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/)