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title: Then Manawyddan noosed the string about the mouse’s neck, and was ab… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Manawyddan noosed the string about the mouse’s neck, and was about to draw it tight when a bishop, with a great following and horses bearing huge packs, came by. Who acts: Manawyddan, bishop. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 116

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Then Manawyddan noosed the string about the mouse’s neck, and was about to draw it tight when a bishop, with a great following and horses bearing huge packs, came by.

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**Who acts:** Manawyddan, bishop · **What happens:** noose, be, draw, follow, bear, come by · **To what, where:** string, huge packs

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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, bishop), 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:pg3454:35:116
# text = Then Manawyddan noosed the string about the mouse’s neck, and was about to draw it tight when a bishop, with a great following and horses bearing huge packs, came by.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	noosed	noose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	about	about	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	draw	draw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	tight	tight	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
29	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
30	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	packs	pack	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **noose** | past | Manawyddan | the string |  |  | then | about the mouse's neck | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **draw** | to-infinitive |  | string |  |  |  | tight *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** | gerund | a bishop and horses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bear** | gerund | a bishop and horses | huge packs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Patient |
| 6 | **come by** | past | Manawyddan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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