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title: For a year these four fed on the meat that Manawyddan and Pryderi ki… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: For a year these four fed on the meat that Manawyddan and Pryderi killed out hunting, and the honey of the bees that sucked the mountain heather. Who acts: four, Manawyddan, bees. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 9

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For a year these four fed on the meat that Manawyddan and Pryderi killed out hunting, and the honey of the bees that sucked the mountain heather.

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**Who acts:** four, Manawyddan, bees · **What happens:** feed, kill out, hunt, suck · **To what, where:** meat, mountain heather

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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 (four, Manawyddan, bees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg3454:3114`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:35:9
# text = For a year these four fed on the meat that Manawyddan and Pryderi killed out hunting, and the honey of the bees that sucked the mountain heather.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fed	feed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
11	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	bees	bee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sucked	suck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	heather	heather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feed** | past | this four |  |  |  | year | on the meat and the honey of the bees | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on meat=Patient |
| 2 | **kill out** | past | Manawyddan and Pryderi | the meat and the honey of the bees |  |  |  | out *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** | gerund | Manawyddan and Pryderi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **suck** | past | the bees | the mountain heather |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent heather=Source |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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