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title: Somehow or other, the king’s strength and skill had departed from hi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Somehow or other, the king’s strength and skill had departed from him, and soon the Gruagach was the victor. Who acts: Gruagach. 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 150

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Somehow or other, the king’s strength and skill had departed from him, and soon the Gruagach was the victor.

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**Who acts:** Gruagach · **What happens:** depart, be · **To what, where:** strength, victor

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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), 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:pg3454:8:150
# text = Somehow or other, the king’s strength and skill had departed from him, and soon the Gruagach was the victor.
1	Somehow	somehow	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | past · perfect · passive |  | the king's strength and skill |  |  |  | from King | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the Gruagach | the victor |  |  |  | soon *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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