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title: This flattered the farmer’s wife so much that she gave him some butt… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This flattered the farmer’s wife so much that she gave him some butter to spread on it, and Peronnik was still eating it on the doorstep when an armed knight rode up. Who acts: This, wife, Peronnik, armed knight. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, wit
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 68

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This flattered the farmer’s wife so much that she gave him some butter to spread on it, and Peronnik was still eating it on the doorstep when an armed knight rode up.

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**Who acts:** This, wife, Peronnik, armed knight · **What happens:** flatter, give, spread, eat, ride up · **To what, where:** wife, butter, Peronnik, doorstep

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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 (This, wife, Peronnik, armed knight), 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:pg3454:26:68
# text = This flattered the farmer’s wife so much that she gave him some butter to spread on it, and Peronnik was still eating it on the doorstep when an armed knight rode up.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flattered	flatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	butter	butter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	spread	spread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flatter** | past | This | the farmer's wife |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer |
| 2 | **give** | past | wife | some butter | Peronnik |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient butter=Theme |
| 3 | **spread** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  | butter |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location |
| 4 | **eat** | past · progressive | Peronnik | butter |  | the doorstep | still |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **ride up** | past | a armed knight |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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 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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