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title: ‘That’s easily said!’ answered the crow, ‘but how are we to manage t… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That’s easily said!’ answered the crow, ‘but how are we to manage that? Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 111

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‘That’s easily said!’ answered the crow, ‘but how are we to manage that?

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** say, be · **To what, where:** That, crow · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg5615:9:111
# text = ‘That’s easily said!’ answered the crow, ‘but how are we to manage that?
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | That |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the crow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | manage *property* | tree rules |

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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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