--- title: ‘I shall show that I am not frightened,’ he said; and so he took his… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I shall show that I am not frightened,’ he said; and so he took his drum, sabre, cock’s feather, clasp-knife, pop-gun and air-pistol, and went off quite alone to the wood to hunt wolves. Who acts: I, Walter. 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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, Walter), 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:pg3454:8:30 # text = ‘I shall show that I am not frightened,’ he said; and so he took his drum, sabre, cock’s feather, clasp-knife, pop-gun and air-pistol, and went off quite alone to the wood to hunt wolves. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 frightened frighten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 drum drum NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 sabre sabre NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’s 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 clasp clasp NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 knife knife NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 pop pop NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 gun gun NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 37 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 pistol pistol NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 42 off off ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 quite quite ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 alone alone ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 50 wolves wolf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | shall | I | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **frighten** | present · passive | | I | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Walter | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | past | Walter | Walter's drum and sabre and cock's feather and clasp knife and pop gun and air pistol | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme | | 5 | **go off** | past | Walter *not said here* | | | | | to the wood; alone, off *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | Walter *not said here* | wolves | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/31/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/)