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title: Then they arose, and as they did so Yspaddaden Penkawr took the thir… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then they arose, and as they did so Yspaddaden Penkawr took the third poisoned dart and cast it at them. Who acts: eyebrows, Yspaddaden. 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 30

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Then they arose, and as they did so Yspaddaden Penkawr took the third poisoned dart and cast it at them.

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**Who acts:** eyebrows, Yspaddaden · **What happens:** arise, do, take, poison, cast · **To what, where:** third poisoned dart, death

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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 (eyebrows, Yspaddaden), 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:pg3454:39:30
# text = Then they arose, and as they did so Yspaddaden Penkawr took the third poisoned dart and cast it at them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	amod	_	_
15	poisoned	poison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	dart	dart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | eyebrows *= eyebrow* |  |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | past | eyebrows *= eyebrow* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **take** | past | Yspaddaden | the third poisoned dart |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme |
| 4 | **poison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **cast** | present | Yspaddaden *not said here* | death |  |  |  | at eyebrows *= eyebrow* | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at they=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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