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title: But she answered, ‘That can only be when Ciccu brings me the veil th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But she answered, ‘That can only be when Ciccu brings me the veil that I let fall on my way here.’ Who acts: wife, Ciccu, That, I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 90

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But she answered, ‘That can only be when Ciccu brings me the veil that I let fall on my way here.’

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**Who acts:** wife, Ciccu, That, I, veil · **What happens:** answer, bring, be, let, fall · **To what, where:** me, veil, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Ciccu, That, I), 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:pg5615:38:90
# text = But she answered, ‘That can only be when Ciccu brings me the veil that I let fall on my way here.’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
5	‘	‘	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	nsubj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	cop	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bring** | present | Ciccu |  | me |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | can | That | the veil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** | past | I | the veil |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | infinitive | the veil *not said here* |  |  | my way; here |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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