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title: And at the moment in which their song sounds sweetest thou wilt hear… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And at the moment in which their song sounds sweetest thou wilt hear a murmuring and complaining coming towards thee along the valley, and thou wilt see a knight in black velvet bestriding a black horse, bearing a lance with a black pennon, and he will spur his steed so as to fight thee. Who acts: t
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 46

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And at the moment in which their song sounds sweetest thou wilt hear a murmuring and complaining coming towards thee along the valley, and thou wilt see a knight in black velvet bestriding a black horse, bearing a lance with a black pennon, and he will spur his steed so as to fight thee.

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**Who acts:** thou, black velvet, horse, trees · **What happens:** sound, hear, complain, come, see, bestride · **To what, where:** sweetest, murmuring, thee, knight, black velvet, black horse

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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 (thou, black velvet, horse, trees), 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:pg3454:30:46
# text = And at the moment in which their song sounds sweetest thou wilt hear a murmuring and complaining coming towards thee along the valley, and thou wilt see a knight in black velvet bestriding a black horse, bearing a lance with a black pennon, and he will spur his steed so as to fight thee.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	obl	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nsubj	_	_
12	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	complaining	complain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
18	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	_
19	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	obl	_	_
21	along	along	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nsubj	_	_
27	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
34	bestriding	bestride	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	33	acl	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	pennon	pennon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
49	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	spur	spur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
51	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
52	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	so	so	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
54	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	advcl	_	_
57	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present |  | sweetest |  |  | moment |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hear** | future | thou | a murmuring |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer murmuring=Stimulus |
| 3 | **complain** *speech: other* | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **come** | gerund | thou *not said here* |  |  | thee |  | along the valley | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme towards thou=Initial\_Location along valley=Destination |
| 5 | **see** | future | thou | a knight |  | black velvet |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus |
| 6 | **bestride** | gerund | black velvet *not said here* | a black horse |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horse=Co-Theme |
| 7 | **bear** | gerund | thou *not said here* | a lance |  |  |  | with a black pennon | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lance=Patient |
| 8 | **spur** | future | horse | horse's steed |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient |
| 9 | **fight** | to-infinitive | horse *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent |
| 10 | **sing** |  | trees *= tree* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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 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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