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title: But Peronnik ate what was there with a hearty appetite, and thought… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But Peronnik ate what was there with a hearty appetite, and thought that he had never tasted better food. Who acts: Peronnik. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 65

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But Peronnik ate what was there with a hearty appetite, and thought that he had never tasted better food.

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**Who acts:** Peronnik · **What happens:** eat, be, think, not taste · **To what, where:** better food · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg3454:26:65
# text = But Peronnik ate what was there with a hearty appetite, and thought that he had never tasted better food.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	hearty	hearty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	appetite	appetite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	tasted	taste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past | Peronnik |  |  |  |  | with a hearty appetite | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Peronnik *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **taste** | past · perfect | Peronnik | better food |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme food=Attribute |

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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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