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title: ‘No, I have not time,’ said Jonas, ‘and besides, there are sure not… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘No, I have not time,’ said Jonas, ‘and besides, there are sure not to be more than three. Who acts: I, sure. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 3

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‘No, I have not time,’ said Jonas, ‘and besides, there are sure not to be more than three.

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**Who acts:** I, sure · **What happens:** have, say, beside, be, not be · **To what, where:** Jonas, three · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sure), 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:pg3454:8:3
# text = ‘No, I have not time,’ said Jonas, ‘and besides, there are sure not to be more than three.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Jonas	Jonas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
19	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	cop	_	_
23	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	25	advmod	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	fixed	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | Jonas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beside** | present | sure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | present | sure |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **is a** | to-infinitive |  | three |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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