--- title: “Why not?” he replied; “but first let me see your paws.” — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Why not?” he replied; “but first let me see your paws.” Who acts: friend. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/95/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Lea…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/) / 95 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 95 “Why not?” he replied; “but first let me see your paws.” **Who acts:** friend · **What happens:** reply, let, see · **To what, where:** friend, paws · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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:pg503:13:95 # text = “Why not?” he replied; “but first let me see your paws.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 12 advmod _ _ 12 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 paws paw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | friend | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | friend | | | | first *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | friend *not said here* | your paws | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer paw=Stimulus | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/96/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)