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title: And Manawyddan looked, and saw corn growing in the fields, and cows… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And Manawyddan looked, and saw corn growing in the fields, and cows and sheep grazing on the hill-side, and huts for the people to dwell in. Who acts: Manawyddan, corn, sheep, cows. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 11

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And Manawyddan looked, and saw corn growing in the fields, and cows and sheep grazing on the hill-side, and huts for the people to dwell in.

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**Who acts:** Manawyddan, corn, sheep, cows · **What happens:** look, see, grow, graze, dwell in · **To what, where:** corn, fields

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Manawyddan, corn, sheep, cows), 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:pg3454:36:11
# text = And Manawyddan looked, and saw corn growing in the fields, and cows and sheep grazing on the hill-side, and huts for the people to dwell in.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
14	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	acl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	huts	hut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | Manawyddan |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | Manawyddan *not said here* | corn |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corn=Stimulus |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | corn *not said here* |  |  | the fields |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Location |
| 4 | **graze** | gerund | sheep *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the hill side | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on side=Patient |
| 5 | **dwell in** | to-infinitive | cows and sheep and huts for the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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