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title: Then, striking a silver shield that hung close by, he said to the eq… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, striking a silver shield that hung close by, he said to the equerry who appeared immediately: Who acts: king, silver shield, equerry. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 7

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Then, striking a silver shield that hung close by, he said to the equerry who appeared immediately:

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**Who acts:** king, silver shield, equerry · **What happens:** strike, hang, say, appear · **To what, where:** silver shield, equerry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, silver shield, equerry), 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:pg3454:4:7
# text = Then, striking a silver shield that hung close by, he said to the equerry who appeared immediately:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	close	close	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	equerry	equerry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | gerund | king *not said here* | a silver shield |  |  | then |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient |
| 2 | **hang** | past | a silver shield |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | king |  | the equerry |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to equerry=Recipient |
| 4 | **appear** | past | the equerry |  |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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