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title: It was then that the Breton would begin: ‘Plouhinec is a small town… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was then that the Breton would begin: ‘Plouhinec is a small town near Hennebonne by the sea,’ and would continue until Kenneth or Effie would interrupt him with an eager question. Who acts: frost, Plouhinec, Kenneth. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 50

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It was then that the Breton would begin: ‘Plouhinec is a small town near Hennebonne by the sea,’ and would continue until Kenneth or Effie would interrupt him with an eager question.

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**Who acts:** frost, Plouhinec, Kenneth · **What happens:** be, continue, interrupt · **To what, where:** small town, Hennebonne, Plouhinec

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frost, Plouhinec, Kenneth), 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:pg3454:25:50
# text = It was then that the Breton would begin: ‘Plouhinec is a small town near Hennebonne by the sea,’ and would continue until Kenneth or Effie would interrupt him with an eager question.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Breton	Breton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Plouhinec	Plouhinec	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
16	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hennebonne	Hennebonne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	continue	continue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
26	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	Kenneth	Kenneth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Effie	Effie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	interrupt	interrupt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would · past | frost |  |  |  | then | by the sea; begin *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Plouhinec | a small town |  | Hennebonne |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **continue** | would | frost *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **interrupt** | would | Kenneth or Effie | Plouhinec |  |  |  | with a eager question | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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