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title: ‘A good friend hast thou lost,’ answered Rhiannon, and she went up t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘A good friend hast thou lost,’ answered Rhiannon, and she went up to the castle and through the gate, which was open. Who acts: good friend, thou, Rhiannon, gate. 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
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 47

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‘A good friend hast thou lost,’ answered Rhiannon, and she went up to the castle and through the gate, which was open.

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**Who acts:** good friend, thou, Rhiannon, gate · **What happens:** have, lose, answer, go up, be · **To what, where:** Rhiannon

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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 (good friend, thou, Rhiannon, gate), 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:pg3454:35:47
# text = ‘A good friend hast thou lost,’ answered Rhiannon, and she went up to the castle and through the gate, which was open.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
10	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Rhiannon	Rhiannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | a good friend |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Rhiannon |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rhiannon=Eventuality |
| 4 | **go up** | past | Rhiannon |  |  |  |  | to the castle and the gate | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **is** | past | the gate |  |  |  |  | open *property* | 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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