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title: ‘Pryderi has had the knockers of the gate of my palace hung about hi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Pryderi has had the knockers of the gate of my palace hung about him, and Rhiannon has carried the collars of my asses around her neck,’ said the bishop with a smile. Who acts: Pryderi, knockers. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 14

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‘Pryderi has had the knockers of the gate of my palace hung about him, and Rhiannon has carried the collars of my asses around her neck,’ said the bishop with a smile.

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**Who acts:** Pryderi, knockers · **What happens:** have, hang, carry, say · **To what, where:** Rhiannon, bishop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Pryderi, knockers), 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:pg3454:36:14
# text = ‘Pryderi has had the knockers of the gate of my palace hung about him, and Rhiannon has carried the collars of my asses around her neck,’ said the bishop with a smile.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	knockers	knocker	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	Rhiannon	Rhiannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	collars	collar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	asses	ass	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	around	around	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
31	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | Pryderi |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hang** | past | the knockers of the gate of my palace |  |  |  |  | about Pryderi | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about he=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | present · perfect · passive |  | Rhiannon |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary collar=Value |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  | the bishop |  |  |  | with a smile | 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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