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description: ‘Truly,’ answered Manawyddan, ‘thou wouldst do unwisely, for whosoever has cast a spell over this land has set this castle here.’ Who acts: thou. 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 clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 41

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‘Truly,’ answered Manawyddan, ‘thou wouldst do unwisely, for whosoever has cast a spell over this land has set this castle here.’

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** answer, do, cast, set · **To what, where:** Manawyddan, whosoever, spell

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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 (thou), 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:pg3454:35:41
# text = ‘Truly,’ answered Manawyddan, ‘thou wouldst do unwisely, for whosoever has cast a spell over this land has set this castle here.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	wouldst	would	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	unwisely	unwisely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	over	over	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
25	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Manawyddan |  |  | truly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent manawyddan=Eventuality |
| 2 | **do** | would | thou |  |  |  |  | unwisely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **cast** | present · perfect · passive |  | whosoever |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **set** | present · perfect · passive |  | a spell over this land |  | here |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme castle=Destination |

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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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