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title: ‘Come hither to-morrow and I will answer you,’ replied Yspaddaden Pe… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Come hither to-morrow and I will answer you,’ replied Yspaddaden Penkawr, and as they rose to leave the hall he caught up one of the three poisoned darts that lay beside him and flung it in their midst. Who acts: I, Yspaddaden, men, one. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lila
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 14

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‘Come hither to-morrow and I will answer you,’ replied Yspaddaden Penkawr, and as they rose to leave the hall he caught up one of the three poisoned darts that lay beside him and flung it in their midst.

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**Who acts:** I, Yspaddaden, men, one, darts · **What happens:** come, answer, reply, rise, leave, catch up · **To what, where:** morrow, you, hall, darts, midst · **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 (I, Yspaddaden, men, one), 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:pg3454:39:14
# text = ‘Come hither to-morrow and I will answer you,’ replied Yspaddaden Penkawr, and as they rose to leave the hall he caught up one of the three poisoned darts that lay beside him and flung it in their midst.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
3	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
14	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
16	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nmod	_	_
33	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
34	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	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 | **come** | infinitive |  |  |  | morrow |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Yspaddaden |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **rise** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **leave** | to-infinitive | men *= man* *not said here* | the hall |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme |
| 6 | **catch up** | past | Yspaddaden |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **poison** | past | one of the three | darts |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Patient |
| 8 | **lay** | present | darts |  |  |  |  | beside Yspaddaden | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside he=Destination |
| 9 | **fling** | past | Yspaddaden *not said here* | hall |  | men's midst |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in midst=Destination |

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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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