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title: ‘It will be easy for me to compass this, though thou mayest think it… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘It will be easy for me to compass this, though thou mayest think it will not be easy,’ Kilweh answered him. Who acts: this, thou, Kilweh. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 58

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‘It will be easy for me to compass this, though thou mayest think it will not be easy,’ Kilweh answered him.

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**Who acts:** this, thou, Kilweh · **What happens:** be, compass, think, not be, answer · **To what, where:** Drudwyn · **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 39. 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, Kilweh), 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:pg3454:39:58
# text = ‘It will be easy for me to compass this, though thou mayest think it will not be easy,’ Kilweh answered him.
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	0	root	_	_
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	conj	_	_
10	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	though	though	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	think	think	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	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future |  |  |  |  |  | for me; easy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compass** |  | this |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | may | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is** | future |  |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Kilweh |  | Drudwyn |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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