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title: First of all Walter would fight against four, and then against three… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: First of all Walter would fight against four, and then against three, then two, and then one, and now Walter wants help with one. Who acts: Walter, three. 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 17

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First of all Walter would fight against four, and then against three, then two, and then one, and now Walter wants help with one.

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**Who acts:** Walter, three · **What happens:** fight, help

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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 (Walter, three), 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:pg3454:8:17
# text = First of all Walter would fight against four, and then against three, then two, and then one, and now Walter wants help with one.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	obl	_	_
4	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	against	against	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
11	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
12	against	against	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
24	Walter	Walter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	wants	want	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
26	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	obl	_	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 | **fight** | would | Walter |  |  |  |  | against four; first *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | present | three |  |  |  | now | with one | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with one=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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