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title: ‘Yspaddaden Penkawr, give us thy daughter and thou shalt keep her do… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yspaddaden Penkawr, give us thy daughter and thou shalt keep her dower. Who acts: Yspaddaden, thou, Custennin. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 20

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‘Yspaddaden Penkawr, give us thy daughter and thou shalt keep her dower.

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**Who acts:** Yspaddaden, thou, Custennin · **What happens:** give, keep, dower · **To what, where:** daughter, dower

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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 (Yspaddaden, thou, Custennin), 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:pg3454:39:20
# text = ‘Yspaddaden Penkawr, give us thy daughter and thou shalt keep her dower.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
11	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	dower	dower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present | Yspaddaden |  | thy daughter |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient daughter=Theme |
| 2 | **keep** | shall | thou | Custennin's dower |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dower=Theme |
| 3 | **dower** |  | Custennin |  |  |  |  |  | nom dower «possession transitive»: poss=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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