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title: ‘Maybe, then,’ says he, ‘it will be different now,’ and he struck th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Maybe, then,’ says he, ‘it will be different now,’ and he struck the eye next him with a switch. Who acts: coat, Musha. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 10

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‘Maybe, then,’ says he, ‘it will be different now,’ and he struck the eye next him with a switch.

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**Who acts:** coat, Musha · **What happens:** say, be, strike · **To what, where:** Musha, eye · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat, Musha), 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:pg3454:7:10
# text = ‘Maybe, then,’ says he, ‘it will be different now,’ and he struck the eye next him with a switch.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
15	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	next	next	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	switch	switch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | Musha |  |  | then | maybe *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | future | coat |  |  |  | now | different *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **strike** | past | Musha | the eye |  |  |  | next Man; with a switch | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with switch=Instrument |

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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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