--- title: ‘I certainly think that there will not be more than two,’ said Jonas… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘I certainly think that there will not be more than two,’ said Jonas, ‘there are never more than two when they slay children and rams; Walter can very well shake them without me.’ Who acts: I, two, Jonas, they. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, with i --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/) / 7 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 7 ‘I certainly think that there will not be more than two,’ said Jonas, ‘there are never more than two when they slay children and rams; Walter can very well shake them without me.’ **Who acts:** I, two, Jonas, they, Walter · **What happens:** think, be, say, slay, shake · **To what, where:** children · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, two, Jonas, they), 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:pg3454:8:7 # text = ‘I certainly think that there will not be more than two,’ said Jonas, ‘there are never more than two when they slay children and rams; Walter can very well shake them without me.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 6 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 9 expl _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 obj _ _ 11 than than ADP IN _ 10 fixed _ _ 12 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 Jonas Jonas PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 24 advmod _ _ 23 than than ADP IN _ 22 fixed _ _ 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nsubj _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 slay slay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 28 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 rams ram NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 Walter Walter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 very very ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 36 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 parataxis _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 without without ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | | | | | certainly *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | infinitive | two | | | | | more *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Jonas | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **be** | present | two | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **slay** | present | they | children and rams | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient | | 6 | **shake** | can | Walter | children *= child* | | | | without me; well *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Patient | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/8/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/)