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title: Then Arthur summoned his five best men and bade them go with Kilweh. — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Arthur summoned his five best men and bade them go with Kilweh. Who acts: Arthur, five best men. 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 76

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Then Arthur summoned his five best men and bade them go with Kilweh.

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**Who acts:** Arthur, five best men · **What happens:** summon, go

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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 (Arthur, five best men), 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:pg3454:38:76
# text = Then Arthur summoned his five best men and bade them go with Kilweh.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past | Arthur |  |  |  | then |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | present | Arthur's five best men and bade |  |  |  |  | with Kilweh | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with kilweh=Beneficiary |

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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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