--- title: ‘I am sure I am,’ answered the shark, ‘and I will swim as quickly as… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I am sure I am,’ answered the shark, ‘and I will swim as quickly as I can,’ and so he did, and in three days they caught sight of the kuyu tree hanging over the water. Who acts: I, heart, sharks, kuyu tree. 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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, heart, sharks, kuyu tree), 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:pg3454:5:73 # text = ‘I am sure I am,’ answered the shark, ‘and I will swim as quickly as I can,’ and so he did, and in three days they caught sight of the kuyu tree hanging over the water. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 sure sure ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 9 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 shark shark NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 ‘ ‘ NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 18 as as ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 36 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 kuyu kuyu X FW _ 40 compound _ _ 40 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 41 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 acl _ _ 42 over over ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | I | | | | | sure *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | the shark and ‘ | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shark=Eventuality | | 3 | **swim** | future | I | | | | | quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | past | heart | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **catch** | past | sharks *= shark* | sight of the kuyu tree | | | day | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 6 | **hang** | gerund | the kuyu tree *not said here* | | | the water | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location | | 7 | **sight** | | | the kuyu tree | | | | | nom sight «cognition 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/74/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/)