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title: It was Kai, the boldest of the warriors and the swiftest of foot--he… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It was Kai, the boldest of the warriors and the swiftest of foot--he would could pass nine nights without sleep, and nine days beneath the water--that answered him: Who acts: end, Kilweh, that. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tr
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 73

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It was Kai, the boldest of the warriors and the swiftest of foot--he would could pass nine nights without sleep, and nine days beneath the water--that answered him:

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**Who acts:** end, Kilweh, that · **What happens:** be, pass, answer · **To what, where:** Kilweh

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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 (end, Kilweh, that), 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:pg3454:38:73
# text = It was Kai, the boldest of the warriors and the swiftest of foot--he would could pass nine nights without sleep, and nine days beneath the water--that answered him:
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boldest	bold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
20	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	nights	night	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
26	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | end |  |  |  |  | of the warriors; bold *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | could | Kilweh |  |  |  | night | without sleep | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | that |  | Kilweh |  | day |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |

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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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