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title: ‘We seek Olwen the maiden for this youth,’ answered Kai; ‘does she e… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘We seek Olwen the maiden for this youth,’ answered Kai; ‘does she ever come hither so that she may be seen?’ Who acts: We, Olwen. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 101

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‘We seek Olwen the maiden for this youth,’ answered Kai; ‘does she ever come hither so that she may be seen?’

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**Who acts:** We, Olwen · **What happens:** seek, answer, come, see · **To what, where:** Olwen, Kai

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Olwen), 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:pg3454:38:101
# text = ‘We seek Olwen the maiden for this youth,’ answered Kai; ‘does she ever come hither so that she may be seen?’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	seek	seek	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	fixed	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | present | We | Olwen |  |  |  | maiden *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olwen=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Kai |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kai=Eventuality |
| 3 | **come** | present · do-support | Olwen |  |  |  | ever | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | may · passive |  | Olwen |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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