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title: ‘Her four great grandmothers and her four great grandfathers yet liv… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Her four great grandmothers and her four great grandfathers yet live,’ answered Yspaddaden Penkawr; ‘it is needful that I take counsel with them.’ Who acts: four great grandmothers, dower, I. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, with its dependency tre
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 22

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‘Her four great grandmothers and her four great grandfathers yet live,’ answered Yspaddaden Penkawr; ‘it is needful that I take counsel with them.’

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**Who acts:** four great grandmothers, dower, I · **What happens:** live, answer, be, take · **To what, where:** Yspaddaden, counsel

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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 (four great grandmothers, dower, I), 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:pg3454:39:22
# text = ‘Her four great grandmothers and her four great grandfathers yet live,’ answered Yspaddaden Penkawr; ‘it is needful that I take counsel with them.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | Custennin's four great grandmothers and Custennin's four great grandfathers |  |  |  | yet |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Custennin's four great grandmothers and Custennin's four great grandfathers *not said here* |  | Yspaddaden |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yspaddaden=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | dower |  |  |  |  | needful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | present | I | counsel |  |  |  | with grandmothers *= grandmother* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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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