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title: But within was neither man nor beast; neither boar nor dogs, but onl… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But within was neither man nor beast; neither boar nor dogs, but only a fountain with marble round it, and on the edge a golden bowl, richly wrought, which pleased Pryderi greatly. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 43

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But within was neither man nor beast; neither boar nor dogs, but only a fountain with marble round it, and on the edge a golden bowl, richly wrought, which pleased Pryderi greatly.

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**What happens:** be

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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: 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:pg3454:35:43
# text = But within was neither man nor beast; neither boar nor dogs, but only a fountain with marble round it, and on the edge a golden bowl, richly wrought, which pleased Pryderi greatly.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc:preconj	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	7	cc	_	_
7	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	round	round	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
35	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
37	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | within man nor beast and neither boar nor dogs but a fountain with marble round marble and the edge  a golden bowl | tree rules |

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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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