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title: And it was I who threw the spell upon Pryderi to avenge Gwawl for th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And it was I who threw the spell upon Pryderi to avenge Gwawl for the trick that had been played on him in the game of Badger in the Bag. Who acts: spell, I. 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 claus
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 138

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And it was I who threw the spell upon Pryderi to avenge Gwawl for the trick that had been played on him in the game of Badger in the Bag.

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**Who acts:** spell, I · **What happens:** be, throw, avenge, play · **To what, where:** I, spell, Gwawl, trick, game

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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 (spell, I), 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:pg3454:35:138
# text = And it was I who threw the spell upon Pryderi to avenge Gwawl for the trick that had been played on him in the game of Badger in the Bag.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	avenge	avenge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	Gwawl	Gwawl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Badger	Badger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Bag	Bag	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | spell | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw** | past | I | the spell |  |  |  | upon Pryderi | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spell=Theme upon pryderi=Destination |
| 3 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | Gwawl |  |  |  | for the trick | tree rules |
| 4 | **play** | past · perfect · passive |  | the trick |  | the game of Badger in the Bag |  | on Gwawl | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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