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title: Throughout the world there is none that can hunt with this dog save… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Throughout the world there is none that can hunt with this dog save Mabon the son of Modron. Who acts: none, dog. 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 60

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Throughout the world there is none that can hunt with this dog save Mabon the son of Modron.

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**Who acts:** none, dog · **What happens:** be, hunt, save · **To what, where:** world, Mabon

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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 (none, dog), 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:pg3454:39:60
# text = Throughout the world there is none that can hunt with this dog save Mabon the son of Modron.
1	Throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
14	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Modron	Modron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | none |  |  | the world; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout world=Location |
| 2 | **hunt** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | this dog | Mabon |  |  |  | the son of Modron *vocative* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mabon=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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