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title: ‘Salmon of Llyn Llyw,’ he called, ‘I have come to thee with an embas… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Salmon of Llyn Llyw,’ he called, ‘I have come to thee with an embassy from Arthur to inquire if thou knowest aught concerning Mabon the son of Modron.’ Who acts: Llyw, I, thou. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 124

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‘Salmon of Llyn Llyw,’ he called, ‘I have come to thee with an embassy from Arthur to inquire if thou knowest aught concerning Mabon the son of Modron.’

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**Who acts:** Llyw, I, thou · **What happens:** call, come, inquire, know, concern · **To what, where:** Salmon, thee, aught, Mabon · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Llyw, I, 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:pg3454:39:124
# text = ‘Salmon of Llyn Llyw,’ he called, ‘I have come to thee with an embassy from Arthur to inquire if thou knowest aught concerning Mabon the son of Modron.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Llyn	Llyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Llyw	Llyw	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	TO	_	16	case	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nsubj	_	_
26	knowest	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
27	aught	aught	PRON	NN	PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
28	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
29	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Modron	Modron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | Llyw | Salmon of Llyn |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present · perfect | I |  |  | thee |  | with a embassy from Arthur | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **inquire** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | thou | aught |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer aught=Stimulus |
| 5 | **concern** | gerund |  | Mabon |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus mabon=Experiencer son=Result |

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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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