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title: ‘In Walter’s place I should go quite alone, it is more manly,’ said… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘In Walter’s place I should go quite alone, it is more manly,’ said Jonas. Who acts: I, more, Jonas. 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 137

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‘In Walter’s place I should go quite alone, it is more manly,’ said Jonas.

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**Who acts:** I, more, Jonas · **What happens:** go, be, say · **To what, where:** place · **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 (I, more, Jonas), 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:pg3454:7:137
# text = ‘In Walter’s place I should go quite alone, it is more manly,’ said Jonas.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	manly	manly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	Jonas	Jonas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | should | I | Walter's place *not said here* |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | more |  |  | Walter's place |  | manly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jonas |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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