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title: Master Peter, who had been listening attentively, pricked up his ear… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Master Peter, who had been listening attentively, pricked up his ears at the sound of his daughter’s name, and very soon found out that it was indeed with her that this young man was so deeply in love. Who acts: Master, Bitter, young man, daughter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew La
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 73

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Master Peter, who had been listening attentively, pricked up his ears at the sound of his daughter’s name, and very soon found out that it was indeed with her that this young man was so deeply in love.

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**Who acts:** Master, Bitter, young man, daughter · **What happens:** listen, prick up, find out, be, name · **To what, where:** ears, sound, love

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Master, Bitter, young man, daughter), 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:pg2435:17:73
# text = Master Peter, who had been listening attentively, pricked up his ears at the sound of his daughter’s name, and very soon found out that it was indeed with her that this young man was so deeply in love.
1	Master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux	_	_
7	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	appos	_	_
8	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pricked	prick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
35	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
36	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past · perfect · progressive | Master |  |  |  |  | attentively *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prick up** | participle | Master *not said here* | Peter's ears |  | the sound of Peter's daughter's name |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient |
| 3 | **find out** | participle | Master *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | Bitter |  |  |  |  | with maiden; indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | past | this young man |  |  | love |  | deeply *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  | Peter's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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