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title: ‘Near these young men was a man richly dressed, who turned and went… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Near these young men was a man richly dressed, who turned and went with me towards the castle, where all the dwellers were gathered in the hall. Who acts: young men, man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 13

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‘Near these young men was a man richly dressed, who turned and went with me towards the castle, where all the dwellers were gathered in the hall.

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**Who acts:** young men, man · **What happens:** be, dress, turn, go, gather · **To what, where:** man, castle, dwellers, hall

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young men, man), 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:pg3454:30:13
# text = ‘Near these young men was a man richly dressed, who turned and went with me towards the castle, where all the dwellers were gathered in the hall.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	25	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	gathered	gather	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this young men |  |  |  |  | near a man | tree rules |
| 2 | **dress** | participle |  | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | richly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn** | past | a man |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | a man *not said here* |  |  | the castle |  | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards castle=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **gather** | past · passive |  | all dwellers |  | the hall |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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