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title: ‘As thou wilt,’ answered the giant, and speedily did Kai polish half… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘As thou wilt,’ answered the giant, and speedily did Kai polish half the sword. Who acts: Kai. 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 80

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‘As thou wilt,’ answered the giant, and speedily did Kai polish half the sword.

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**Who acts:** Kai · **What happens:** answer, polish · **To what, where:** giant, sword

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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 (Kai), 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:pg3454:39:80
# text = ‘As thou wilt,’ answered the giant, and speedily did Kai polish half the sword.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	polish	polish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
16	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  | the giant |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality |
| 2 | **polish** | past · do-support | Kai | half sword |  |  |  | speedily *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Destination |

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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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