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title: Hard did they fight, but Owen overthrew his enemy and drove him in f… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Hard did they fight, but Owen overthrew his enemy and drove him in front to the castle gate and into the hall. Who acts: pages, Owen. 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 91

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Hard did they fight, but Owen overthrew his enemy and drove him in front to the castle gate and into the hall.

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**Who acts:** pages, Owen · **What happens:** fight, overthrow, drive · **To what, where:** enemy, Owen, front

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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 (pages, Owen), 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:pg3454:31:91
# text = Hard did they fight, but Owen overthrew his enemy and drove him in front to the castle gate and into the hall.
1	Hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	overthrew	overthrow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past · do-support | pages *= page* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **overthrow** | past | Owen | Owen's enemy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drive** | past | Owen *not said here* | Owen |  | front |  | to the castle gate and the hall | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in front=Destination to gate=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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