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title: And when it was time for them to depart Arthur besought the countess… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when it was time for them to depart Arthur besought the countess that she would allow Owen to go with him to Britain for the space of three months. Who acts: feasting, orders, Arthur, countess. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, with its dependenc
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 60

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And when it was time for them to depart Arthur besought the countess that she would allow Owen to go with him to Britain for the space of three months.

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**Who acts:** feasting, orders, Arthur, countess · **What happens:** be, depart, beseech, allow, go · **To what, where:** time, countess, Owen, Britain

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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 (feasting, orders, Arthur, countess), 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:pg3454:31:60
# text = And when it was time for them to depart Arthur besought the countess that she would allow Owen to go with him to Britain for the space of three months.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
10	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	besought	beseech	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
18	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	iobj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Britain	Britain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | feasting | time |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **depart** | to-infinitive | orders *= order* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **beseech** | past | Arthur | the countess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **allow** | would | Arthur | the countess *not said here* | Owen |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer owen=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the countess *not said here* |  |  | Britain |  | with Owen; for the space of three months | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to britain=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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