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title: ‘I am not really a man,’ replied his guide, ‘though I have the outwa… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I am not really a man,’ replied his guide, ‘though I have the outward form of one, but one of those beings to whom is given the care of the world. Who acts: I, man, world. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 53

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‘I am not really a man,’ replied his guide, ‘though I have the outward form of one, but one of those beings to whom is given the care of the world.

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**Who acts:** I, man, world · **What happens:** not be, reply, have, give, care · **To what, where:** man, guide, outward form, one

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man, world), 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:pg641:25:53
# text = ‘I am not really a man,’ replied his guide, ‘though I have the outward form of one, but one of those beings to whom is given the care of the world.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
5	really	really	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	guide	guide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	outward	outward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	beings	being	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | I | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | a man | man's guide |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent guide=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | present | I | the outward form of one |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | present · passive |  | one of that beings |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient care=Theme |
| 5 | **care** |  | the world |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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