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title: ‘The Dark Man didn’t once cast his eye towards Molly, and he seemed… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The Dark Man didn’t once cast his eye towards Molly, and he seemed to have no suspicion of me. Who acts: Dark Man, man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 111

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‘The Dark Man didn’t once cast his eye towards Molly, and he seemed to have no suspicion of me.

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**Who acts:** Dark Man, man · **What happens:** not do, cast, seem, have, suspect · **To what, where:** eye, suspicion, me

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dark Man, man), 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:pg3454:6:111
# text = ‘The Dark Man didn’t once cast his eye towards Molly, and he seemed to have no suspicion of me.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Dark	Dark	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	compound	_	_
4	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	cast	cast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** | past | the Dark Man |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cast** | past | the Dark Man *not said here* | man's eye |  |  |  | towards Molly; once *property* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme towards molly=Destination |
| 3 | **seem** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | no suspicion of me |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient |
| 5 | **suspect** |  |  | me |  |  |  |  | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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