--- title: ‘Well, I cannot say but it is very extraordinary,’ says the Knight o… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Well, I cannot say but it is very extraordinary,’ says the Knight of the Glen, ‘and on that account pardon this young man his crime; so stir up the fire, till I boil this second one.’ Who acts: I, hatchet, man. 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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, hatchet, man), 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:pg540:8:83 # text = ‘Well, I cannot say but it is very extraordinary,’ says the Knight of the Glen, ‘and on that account pardon this young man his crime; so stir up the fire, till I boil this second one.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 extraordinary extraordinary ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 15 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Knight knight NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 Glen Glen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 27 pardon pardon VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 ccomp _ _ 28 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 stir stir VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 till till SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 41 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 boil boil VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 43 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 45 det _ _ 44 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 45 amod _ _ 45 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **say** *speech: assert* | can | I | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | present | hatchet | | | | | extraordinary *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | the Knight of the Glen | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **pardon** | present | | this young man | | that account | | | tree rules | | 5 | **stir up** | infinitive | | the fire | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient | | 6 | **boil** | present | I | this second one | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 7 | **incriminate** | | man | | | | | | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 82](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/82/) - next →: [sentence 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/84/) - ↑ back to [The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/8/)