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title: And many of the other marvels were done likewise by Arthur and his k… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And many of the other marvels were done likewise by Arthur and his knights, and at last it came to the fight with Trwyth the board, to obtain the comb and the scissors and the razor that lay between his ears. Who acts: Arthur, last, razor. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lil
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 4

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And many of the other marvels were done likewise by Arthur and his knights, and at last it came to the fight with Trwyth the board, to obtain the comb and the scissors and the razor that lay between his ears.

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**Who acts:** Arthur, last, razor · **What happens:** do, come, obtain, lie · **To what, where:** many, fight, comb, ears

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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 (Arthur, last, razor), 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:pg3454:40:4
# text = And many of the other marvels were done likewise by Arthur and his knights, and at last it came to the fight with Trwyth the board, to obtain the comb and the scissors and the razor that lay between his ears.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	marvels	marvel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	nsubj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Trwyth	Trwyth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	obtain	obtain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	comb	comb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	scissors	scissors	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	razor	razor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	40	nsubj	_	_
40	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	acl:relcl	_	_
41	between	between	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · passive | Arthur and Gwythyr's knights | many of the other marvels |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **come** | past | last |  |  | the fight with Trwyth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fight=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **obtain** | to-infinitive | last *not said here* | the comb and the scissors and the razor |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comb=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | past | the razor |  |  | Gwythyr's ears |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between ear=Location |

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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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