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title: And sure am I that the tale told by Kynon the son of Clydno caused m… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And sure am I that the tale told by Kynon the son of Clydno caused me to lose him. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 34

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And sure am I that the tale told by Kynon the son of Clydno caused me to lose him.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** be, tell, cause, lose · **To what, where:** tale, son, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg3454:31:34
# text = And sure am I that the tale told by Kynon the son of Clydno caused me to lose him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Kynon	Kynon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl:agent	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Clydno	Clydno	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the tale *not said here* | the son of Clydno |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient |
| 3 | **cause** | past | I |  | me |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | tale |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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