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title: ‘As you may suppose, this was not easy, as my ugliness was such that… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘As you may suppose, this was not easy, as my ugliness was such that no one would look at me a second time. Who acts: you, this, ugliness, one. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 29

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‘As you may suppose, this was not easy, as my ugliness was such that no one would look at me a second time.

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**Who acts:** you, this, ugliness, one · **What happens:** suppose, not be, be, look

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this, ugliness, one), 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:pg3454:4:29
# text = ‘As you may suppose, this was not easy, as my ugliness was such that no one would look at me a second time.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	suppose	suppose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	10	conj	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | may | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | this |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | my ugliness |  |  |  |  | such *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | would | no one |  |  |  | time | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme |

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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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