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title: With him were his knights Owen and Kynon and Kai, while at the far e… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With him were his knights Owen and Kynon and Kai, while at the far end, close to the window, were Guenevere the queen and her maidens embroidering white garments with strange devices of gold. Who acts: knights, maidens. 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 30, sentence 4

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With him were his knights Owen and Kynon and Kai, while at the far end, close to the window, were Guenevere the queen and her maidens embroidering white garments with strange devices of gold.

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**Who acts:** knights, maidens · **What happens:** be, embroider · **To what, where:** knights, Guenevere, white garments

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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 (knights, maidens), 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:pg3454:30:4
# text = With him were his knights Owen and Kynon and Kai, while at the far end, close to the window, were Guenevere the queen and her maidens embroidering white garments with strange devices of gold.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
6	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Kynon	Kynon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	Guenevere	Guenevere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
30	embroidering	embroider	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	garments	garment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	devices	device	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 a** | past |  | cushion's knights |  |  |  | with cushion | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | cushion's knights | Guenevere and Kai's maidens |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **embroider** | gerund | Kai's maidens *not said here* | white garments |  |  |  | with strange devices of gold | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent garment=Destination with device=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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