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title: Gwythyr had pity on them, and put out the fire, and in gratitude the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Gwythyr had pity on them, and put out the fire, and in gratitude the ants brought him the nine bushels of flax seed which Yspaddaden Penkawr required of Kilweh. Who acts: Gwythyr, ants, Yspaddaden. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, with its dependenc
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 3

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Gwythyr had pity on them, and put out the fire, and in gratitude the ants brought him the nine bushels of flax seed which Yspaddaden Penkawr required of Kilweh.

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**Who acts:** Gwythyr, ants, Yspaddaden · **What happens:** have, put out, bring, require · **To what, where:** pity, fire, nine bushels, Gwythyr, gratitude, flax seed

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gwythyr, ants, 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:pg3454:40:3
# text = Gwythyr had pity on them, and put out the fire, and in gratitude the ants brought him the nine bushels of flax seed which Yspaddaden Penkawr required of Kilweh.
1	Gwythyr	Gwythyr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ants	ant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	bushels	bushel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	flax	flax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	seed	seed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
27	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	_
29	required	require	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Gwythyr | pity |  |  |  | on ants *= ant* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient |
| 2 | **put out** | participle | Gwythyr *not said here* | the fire |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal |
| 3 | **bring** | past | the ants | the nine bushels of flax seed | Gwythyr | gratitude |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bushel=Theme |
| 4 | **require** | past | Yspaddaden | flax seed |  |  |  | of Kilweh | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Precondition |

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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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