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title: Now the gloom of the castle was turned into rejoicing, and the earl… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the gloom of the castle was turned into rejoicing, and the earl begged Owen to stay with him till he could make him a feast, but the knight said he had other work to do, and rode back to the place where he had left Luned, and the lion followed at his heels. Who acts: earl, gloom, knight, lion. A
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 9

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Now the gloom of the castle was turned into rejoicing, and the earl begged Owen to stay with him till he could make him a feast, but the knight said he had other work to do, and rode back to the place where he had left Luned, and the lion followed at his heels.

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**Who acts:** earl, gloom, knight, lion · **What happens:** turn, beg, stay, make, say, have · **To what, where:** gloom, rejoicing, Owen, feast, other work, place · **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 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earl, gloom, knight, lion), 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:pg3454:32:9
# text = Now the gloom of the castle was turned into rejoicing, and the earl begged Owen to stay with him till he could make him a feast, but the knight said he had other work to do, and rode back to the place where he had left Luned, and the lion followed at his heels.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	rejoicing	rejoicing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	earl	earl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	Owen	Owen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	_
21	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	ccomp	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
42	back	back	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	49	advmod	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	acl:relcl	_	_
50	Luned	Luned	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
56	at	at	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · passive |  | the gloom of the castle |  | rejoicing |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into rejoicing=Trajectory |
| 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the earl |  | Owen |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent owen=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stay** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the earl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Owen | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location |
| 4 | **make** | could | gloom | a feast | Owen |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary feast=Product |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **have** | past | knight | other work |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient |
| 7 | **do** | to-infinitive | knight *not said here* | other work *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **ride back** | past | the knight *not said here* |  |  | the place |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory |
| 9 | **leave** | past · perfect | knight | Luned |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luned=Theme |
| 10 | **follow** | past | the lion |  |  | lion's heels |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at heel=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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