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title: Nevertheless, as you are Arthur’s men, I will guide you to the place… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless, as you are Arthur’s men, I will guide you to the place where there is an animal older than I’; and the stag ran before them till he reached the owl of Cwm Cawlwyd. Who acts: you, I, animal, stag. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with i
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 107

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Nevertheless, as you are Arthur’s men, I will guide you to the place where there is an animal older than I’; and the stag ran before them till he reached the owl of Cwm Cawlwyd.

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**Who acts:** you, I, animal, stag · **What happens:** be, guide, run, reach · **To what, where:** you, owl

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, animal, stag), 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:pg3454:39:107
# text = Nevertheless, as you are Arthur’s men, I will guide you to the place where there is an animal older than I’; and the stag ran before them till he reached the owl of Cwm Cawlwyd.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	parataxis	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Cwm	Cwm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	Cawlwyd	Cawlwyd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **guide** | future | I | you |  |  |  | nevertheless *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | a animal |  |  |  |  | to the place; than I; old *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **run** | past | the stag |  |  |  | before men *= man* |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Trajectory |
| 5 | **reach** | past | stag | the owl of Cwm |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent owl=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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