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title: At sunrise he collected his herd carefully and led them to the rich… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At sunrise he collected his herd carefully and led them to the rich pasture which lay along the borders of the forest, cutting himself a hazel wand with which to keep them in order. Who acts: Peronnik, rich pasture. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 106

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At sunrise he collected his herd carefully and led them to the rich pasture which lay along the borders of the forest, cutting himself a hazel wand with which to keep them in order.

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**Who acts:** Peronnik, rich pasture · **What happens:** collect, lead, lie, cut, keep · **To what, where:** herd, cattle, rich pasture, borders, Peronnik, order

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, rich pasture), 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:pg3454:26:106
# text = At sunrise he collected his herd carefully and led them to the rich pasture which lay along the borders of the forest, cutting himself a hazel wand with which to keep them in order.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	collected	collect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	along	along	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	hazel	hazel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **collect** | past | Peronnik | Peronnik's herd |  |  | sunrise | carefully *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past | Peronnik *not said here* | cattle |  | the rich pasture |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to pasture=Destination |
| 3 | **lie** | past | the rich pasture |  |  | the borders of the forest |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along border=Location |
| 4 | **cut** | gerund | Peronnik *not said here* | Peronnik |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary wand=Product |
| 5 | **keep** | to-infinitive | Peronnik *not said here* | cattle |  | order |  | with a hazel wand | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=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 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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