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title: Very soon she led her visitor into the great hall, where wine and fr… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very soon she led her visitor into the great hall, where wine and fruit were always waiting, and on the table lay the magic knife, left there by Houarn. Who acts: Groac’h, wine. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 87

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Very soon she led her visitor into the great hall, where wine and fruit were always waiting, and on the table lay the magic knife, left there by Houarn.

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**Who acts:** Groac’h, wine · **What happens:** lead, wait, lie, leave · **To what, where:** visitor, great hall, magic knife, table

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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 (Groac’h, wine), 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:pg3454:34:87
# text = Very soon she led her visitor into the great hall, where wine and fruit were always waiting, and on the table lay the magic knife, left there by Houarn.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
13	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	18	advmod	_	_
18	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
24	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	conj	_	_
30	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Houarn	Houarn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | Groac’h *= groac'h* | Groac’h's visitor |  | the great hall |  | soon *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent visitor=Theme into hall=Destination |
| 2 | **wait** | past · progressive | wine and fruit |  |  |  |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** | past |  | the magic knife |  | the table |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knife=Theme |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  |  |  | there |  | by Houarn | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by houarn=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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