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title: To his dying day Peronnik never knew whether these things were real… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To his dying day Peronnik never knew whether these things were real or if he only imagined them, but he pulled down his knitted cap so as to cover his eyes, and trusted the colt to carry him down the right road. Who acts: things, earth. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 16

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To his dying day Peronnik never knew whether these things were real or if he only imagined them, but he pulled down his knitted cap so as to cover his eyes, and trusted the colt to carry him down the right road.

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**Who acts:** things, earth · **What happens:** die, not know, be, imagine, pull down, knit · **To what, where:** things, knitted cap, eyes, colt · **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 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, earth), 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:pg3454:27:16
# text = To his dying day Peronnik never knew whether these things were real or if he only imagined them, but he pulled down his knitted cap so as to cover his eyes, and trusted the colt to carry him down the right road.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	dying	die	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	knitted	knit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	trusted	trust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	down	down	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **not** **know** | past |  |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | this things |  |  |  |  | real *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **imagine** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | earth | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 5 | **pull down** | past | earth | earth's knitted cap |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 6 | **knit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **cover** | to-infinitive | earth *not said here* | earth's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Destination |
| 8 | **trust** | past |  | the colt |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Theme |
| 9 | **carry down** | to-infinitive |  | colt |  |  |  | the right road *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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