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title: Very sorrowful was Manawyddan, but Pryderi was stout of heart, and b… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very sorrowful was Manawyddan, but Pryderi was stout of heart, and bade him be of good cheer, as he knew a way out of his trouble. Who acts: sorrowful Manawyddan, bade. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 119

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Very sorrowful was Manawyddan, but Pryderi was stout of heart, and bade him be of good cheer, as he knew a way out of his trouble.

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**Who acts:** sorrowful Manawyddan, bade · **What happens:** be, know, trouble · **To what, where:** sorrowful Manawyddan, way, trouble

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sorrowful Manawyddan, bade), 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:pg3454:34:119
# text = Very sorrowful was Manawyddan, but Pryderi was stout of heart, and bade him be of good cheer, as he knew a way out of his trouble.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	sorrowful	sorrowful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	stout	stout	ADJ	NN	Degree=Pos	4	appos	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | sorrowful Manawyddan and bade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of heart; stout *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | infinitive | sorrowful Manawyddan and bade |  |  |  |  | of good cheer | tree rules |
| 4 | **know** | past | bade | a way |  | bade's trouble |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus |
| 5 | **trouble** |  | bade |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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