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title: And though thou get this yet there is that which thou wilt not get,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And though thou get this yet there is that which thou wilt not get, for Trwyth the boar will not let any man take from him the comb and the scissors, unless Drudwyn the whelp hunt him. Who acts: thou, that, boar, man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 56

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And though thou get this yet there is that which thou wilt not get, for Trwyth the boar will not let any man take from him the comb and the scissors, unless Drudwyn the whelp hunt him.

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**Who acts:** thou, that, boar, man, Drudwyn · **What happens:** get, be, not get, not let, take, hunt · **To what, where:** this, comb, boar

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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 (thou, that, boar, man), 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:pg3454:39:56
# text = And though thou get this yet there is that which thou wilt not get, for Trwyth the boar will not let any man take from him the comb and the scissors, unless Drudwyn the whelp hunt him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	though	though	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	nsubj	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
12	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Trwyth	Trwyth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	boar	boar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Drudwyn	Drudwyn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	whelp	whelp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	appos	_	_
38	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	acl	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | thou | this |  |  | yet | though *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **get** | future | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 4 | **not** **let** | future | the boar |  |  |  |  | for Trwyth | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive | any man | the comb and the scissors |  |  |  | from boar; unless Drudwyn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent comb=Theme from he=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **hunt** | infinitive | Drudwyn *not said here* | boar |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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