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title: Feeling himself wounded unto death the knight fled, and Owen pursued… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Feeling himself wounded unto death the knight fled, and Owen pursued him till they came to a splendid castle. Who acts: Feeling, knight, Owen, knights. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 78

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Feeling himself wounded unto death the knight fled, and Owen pursued him till they came to a splendid castle.

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**Who acts:** Feeling, knight, Owen, knights · **What happens:** feel, wound, flee, pursue, come · **To what, where:** blow, splendid castle

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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 (Feeling, knight, Owen, knights), 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:pg3454:30:78
# text = Feeling himself wounded unto death the knight fled, and Owen pursued him till they came to a splendid castle.
1	Feeling	feel	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	csubj	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | gerund |  | blow |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 2 | **wound** | past | Feeling |  |  |  |  | unto death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **flee** | past | the knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pursue** | past | Owen | blow |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | knights *= knight* |  |  | a splendid castle |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial\_Location |

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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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