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title: And so greatly did the townsfolk love these saddles, that no others… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And so greatly did the townsfolk love these saddles, that no others were bought throughout the whole of Hereford, till the saddlers banded together and resolved to slay Manawyddan and his companions. Who acts: townsfolk, saddlers. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 13

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And so greatly did the townsfolk love these saddles, that no others were bought throughout the whole of Hereford, till the saddlers banded together and resolved to slay Manawyddan and his companions.

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**Who acts:** townsfolk, saddlers · **What happens:** do, love, buy, band together, resolve, slay · **To what, where:** saddles, others, Manawyddan

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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 (townsfolk, saddlers), 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:pg3454:35:13
# text = And so greatly did the townsfolk love these saddles, that no others were bought throughout the whole of Hereford, till the saddlers banded together and resolved to slay Manawyddan and his companions.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	townsfolk	townsfolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	saddles	saddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	bought	buy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Hereford	Hereford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	saddlers	saddler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	banded	band	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  | greatly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **love** | present | the townsfolk | this saddles |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saddle=Stimulus |
| 3 | **buy** | past · passive |  | no others |  |  |  | whole *property* | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **band together** | past | the saddlers |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **resolve** | past | the saddlers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **slay** | to-infinitive | the saddlers *not said here* | Manawyddan and Hereford's companions |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manawyddan=Patient |

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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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