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title: When Peter knew that he had nothing more to fear from Eisenkopf, he… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When Peter knew that he had nothing more to fear from Eisenkopf, he rode on slowly till he came to a small white house. Who acts: Peter. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 3

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When Peter knew that he had nothing more to fear from Eisenkopf, he rode on slowly till he came to a small white house.

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**Who acts:** Peter · **What happens:** know, have, fear, ride on, come · **To what, where:** nothing, Eisenkopf, small white house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), 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:pg2435:28:3
# text = When Peter knew that he had nothing more to fear from Eisenkopf, he rode on slowly till he came to a small white house.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Peter	Peter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Eisenkopf	Eisenkopf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
18	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Peter | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **fear** | to-infinitive | Peter *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  | Eisenkopf |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **ride on** | past | Peter |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **come** | past | Peter |  |  | a small white house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_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 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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