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title: Manawyddan was placing the cross-beam on the two forked sticks, wher… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Manawyddan was placing the cross-beam on the two forked sticks, where the mouse was to hang, when a priest rode past. Who acts: Manawyddan, two, mouse, priest. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 103

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Manawyddan was placing the cross-beam on the two forked sticks, where the mouse was to hang, when a priest rode past.

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**Who acts:** Manawyddan, two, mouse, priest · **What happens:** place, fork, be, ride · **To what, where:** cross-beam, sticks

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manawyddan, two, mouse, priest), 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:pg3454:35:103
# text = Manawyddan was placing the cross-beam on the two forked sticks, where the mouse was to hang, when a priest rode past.
1	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cross-beam	cross-beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
9	forked	fork	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
23	past	past	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past · progressive | Manawyddan | the cross-beam |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cross-beam=Theme |
| 2 | **fork** | past | the two | sticks |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stick=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the mouse |  |  |  |  | hang *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | past | a priest |  |  |  |  | past *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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