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title: In the morning Kai again asked leave to meet the knight and to try t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning Kai again asked leave to meet the knight and to try to overcome him, which Arthur granted. Who acts: Kai. 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 45

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In the morning Kai again asked leave to meet the knight and to try to overcome him, which Arthur granted.

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**Who acts:** Kai · **What happens:** ask, leave, meet, try, overcome, grant · **To what, where:** knight · **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 (Kai), 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:pg3454:31:45
# text = In the morning Kai again asked leave to meet the knight and to try to overcome him, which Arthur granted.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	overcome	overcome	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Kai |  |  |  | again; morning |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | the knight |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **try** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **overcome** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | knight |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
| 6 | **grant** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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