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title: ‘The man to whom this ring belonged thou shalt see here in the eveni… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘The man to whom this ring belonged thou shalt see here in the evening,’ answered the shepherd; ‘he is Kilweh, son of Kilydd, cousin to king Arthur, and he has come to seek Olwen.’ Who acts: man, thou. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its depen
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 92

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‘The man to whom this ring belonged thou shalt see here in the evening,’ answered the shepherd; ‘he is Kilweh, son of Kilydd, cousin to king Arthur, and he has come to seek Olwen.’

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**Who acts:** man, thou · **What happens:** belong, see, answer, be, come, seek · **To what, where:** shepherd, Kilweh, Olwen

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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 (man, thou), 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:pg3454:38:92
# text = ‘The man to whom this ring belonged thou shalt see here in the evening,’ answered the shepherd; ‘he is Kilweh, son of Kilydd, cousin to king Arthur, and he has come to seek Olwen.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nmod	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
8	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
18	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Kilydd	Kilydd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	cousin	cousin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | shall | thou |  |  | here | evening |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the man *not said here* |  | the shepherd |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is a** | present | man | Kilweh |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | present · perfect | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **seek** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | Olwen |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olwen=Theme |

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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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