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title: Now the Gruagach was a kind of wicked fairy, with long curly brown h… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Gruagach was a kind of wicked fairy, with long curly brown hair, and his house was not very far from the king’s house. Who acts: Gruagach, house. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 109

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Now the Gruagach was a kind of wicked fairy, with long curly brown hair, and his house was not very far from the king’s house.

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**Who acts:** Gruagach, house · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** kind, house

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gruagach, house), 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:pg3454:8:109
# text = Now the Gruagach was a kind of wicked fairy, with long curly brown hair, and his house was not very far from the king’s house.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	curly	curly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the Gruagach | a kind and the king's house |  |  |  | of wicked fairy; with long curly brown hair | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | fairy's house |  |  | the king's house |  | far *property* | tree rules |

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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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