--- title: ‘So spake the man, and long did that night seem to me, and before da… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘So spake the man, and long did that night seem to me, and before dawn I rose and put on my armour, and mounted my horse and rode on till I reached the grassy space of which he had told me. Who acts: you, I, horse. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:30:27 # text = ‘So spake the man, and long did that night seem to me, and before dawn I rose and put on my armour, and mounted my horse and rode on till I reached the grassy space of which he had told me. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 spake speak VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ _ 9 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 seem seem VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 before before ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 dawn dawn NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 put put VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 armour armour NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 mounted mount VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 rode road NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 on on SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 till till SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 grassy grassy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 44 obl _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 43 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 acl:relcl _ _ 45 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 44 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the man | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **seem** | past · do-support | you *not said here* | | me | | night | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rise** | past | I | | | | dawn | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **put** | participle | I *not said here* | | | my armour | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on armour=Destination | | 5 | **mount** | past | I *not said here* | my horse and rode | | | | | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | | 6 | **reach** | past | I | the grassy space | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent space=Theme | | 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | horse | | me | | | of the grassy space | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/28/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/30/)