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title: Then they set forth, but the news of their coming ran swifter still,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they set forth, but the news of their coming ran swifter still, and Rhiannon and Kieva, wife of Pryderi, made haste to prepare a feast for them. Who acts: lands, news, Rhiannon, haste. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree a
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 3

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Then they set forth, but the news of their coming ran swifter still, and Rhiannon and Kieva, wife of Pryderi, made haste to prepare a feast for them.

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**Who acts:** lands, news, Rhiannon, haste · **What happens:** set, come, run, make, prepare · **To what, where:** news, swifter, haste, feast

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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 (lands, news, Rhiannon, haste), 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:pg3454:35:3
# text = Then they set forth, but the news of their coming ran swifter still, and Rhiannon and Kieva, wife of Pryderi, made haste to prepare a feast for them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	_
12	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	swifter	swifter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	still	still	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
17	Rhiannon	Rhiannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Kieva	Kieva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | lands *= land* |  |  |  | then | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | lands *= land* | the news *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | the news | swifter |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swifter=Trajectory |
| 4 | **make** | past | Rhiannon and Kieva | haste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **prepare** | to-infinitive | haste *not said here* | a feast |  |  |  | for lands *= land* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent feast=Product for they=Beneficiary |

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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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