--- title: ‘From this night to the end of the year right willingly will I grant… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘From this night to the end of the year right willingly will I grant thee,’ replied Kilweh; but when the end of the year came and the messengers returned Kilweh was wroth, and spoke rough words to Arthur. Who acts: I, Kilweh, end, messengers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Kilweh, end, messengers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:38:72 # text = ‘From this night to the end of the year right willingly will I grant thee,’ replied Kilweh; but when the end of the year came and the messengers returned Kilweh was wroth, and spoke rough words to Arthur. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 From from ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 11 right right ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 willingly willingly ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 grant grant VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 16 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 19 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 Kilweh Kilweh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 29 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 29 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 messengers messenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 34 Kilweh Kilweh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 35 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 36 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 40 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 Arthur Arthur PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grant** | future | I | thee | | | night | willingly *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | | 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Kilweh | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** | past | the end of the year | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **return** | past | the messengers | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | past | Kilweh | | | | | wroth *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | | rough words | | | | to Arthur | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/38/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/38/73/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/38/)