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title: ‘Three and twenty of my sons has Yspaddaden slain, and I have no mor… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Three and twenty of my sons has Yspaddaden slain, and I have no more hope of saving this one,’ replied she, and Kai was full of sorrow and answered: Who acts: Three, I, more hope, pity. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 97

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‘Three and twenty of my sons has Yspaddaden slain, and I have no more hope of saving this one,’ replied she, and Kai was full of sorrow and answered:

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**Who acts:** Three, I, more hope, pity, Kai · **What happens:** have, save, reply, be, answer · **To what, where:** Yspaddaden slain, more hope, one

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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 (Three, I, more hope, pity), 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:pg3454:38:97
# text = ‘Three and twenty of my sons has Yspaddaden slain, and I have no more hope of saving this one,’ replied she, and Kai was full of sorrow and answered:
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	parataxis	_	_
9	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
16	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	saving	save	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
24	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	Kai	Kai	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Three | Yspaddaden slain |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slain=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | no more hope |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient |
| 3 | **save** | gerund | no more hope *not said here* | this one |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | pity |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Kai |  |  |  |  | of sorrow; full *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Kai *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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