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title: But luckily Manawyddan got word of it, and he and Kieva left the tow… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But luckily Manawyddan got word of it, and he and Kieva left the town one night and proceeded to Narberth, taking with him a sheaf of wheat, which he sowed in three plots of ground. Who acts: Manawyddan, castle, wheat. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 58

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But luckily Manawyddan got word of it, and he and Kieva left the town one night and proceeded to Narberth, taking with him a sheaf of wheat, which he sowed in three plots of ground.

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**Who acts:** Manawyddan, castle, wheat · **What happens:** get, leave, proceed, take, sow, word · **To what, where:** word, town, Narberth, sheaf, three plots, ground

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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 (Manawyddan, castle, wheat), 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:pg3454:35:58
# text = But luckily Manawyddan got word of it, and he and Kieva left the town one night and proceeded to Narberth, taking with him a sheaf of wheat, which he sowed in three plots of ground.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Kieva	Kieva	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Narberth	Narberth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	sowed	sow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	plots	plot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Manawyddan | word of word |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 2 | **leave** | past | castle | the town |  |  | night |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 3 | **proceed** | past | castle *not said here* |  | Narberth |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | gerund | castle *not said here* | a sheaf of wheat |  |  |  | with castle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme |
| 5 | **sow** | past | wheat |  |  | three plots of ground |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in plot=Destination |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | word |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 7 | **plot** |  |  | ground |  |  |  |  | nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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