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title: The hours slid by, and all was still, so still that Manawyddan well-… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The hours slid by, and all was still, so still that Manawyddan well-nigh dropped asleep. Who acts: hours, all. 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 67

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The hours slid by, and all was still, so still that Manawyddan well-nigh dropped asleep.

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**Who acts:** hours, all · **What happens:** slide, be, drop · **To what, where:** Manawyddan

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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 (hours, all), 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:pg3454:35:67
# text = The hours slid by, and all was still, so still that Manawyddan well-nigh dropped asleep.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slid	slide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
14	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | participle | the hours |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | all |  |  |  |  | still *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drop** | participle · passive |  | Manawyddan |  |  | still | asleep, nigh, well *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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