--- title: At the sight of Peronnik he uttered a piercing scream, and raised hi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At the sight of Peronnik he uttered a piercing scream, and raised his sword, but without appearing surprised the youth only lifted his cap, though he took care to remain at a little distance. Who acts: Peronnik, youth. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/23/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/) / 23 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 23 At the sight of Peronnik he uttered a piercing scream, and raised his sword, but without appearing surprised the youth only lifted his cap, though he took care to remain at a little distance. **Who acts:** Peronnik, youth · **What happens:** utter, raise, appear, surprise, lift, take · **To what, where:** piercing scream, sight, sword, cap, Peronnik 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 (Peronnik, youth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:27:23 # text = At the sight of Peronnik he uttered a piercing scream, and raised his sword, but without appearing surprised the youth only lifted his cap, though he took care to remain at a little distance. 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Peronnik Peronnik PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 uttered utter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 piercing piercing NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 scream scream NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 raised raise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 without without SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 appearing appear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 20 surprised surprise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 only only ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 ccomp _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 though though SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 31 care care VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 ccomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 remain remain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **utter** *speech: other* | past | Peronnik | a piercing scream | | the sight of Peronnik | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scream=Topic | | 2 | **raise** | past | Peronnik *not said here* | Peronnik's sword | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 3 | **appear** | gerund | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **surprise** | past | Peronnik *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **lift** | past | the youth | Peronnik's cap | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme | | 6 | **take** | past | youth | | | | | | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | | 7 | **care** | infinitive | youth *not said here* | | | | | | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **remain** | to-infinitive | youth *not said here* | | | | | at a little distance | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at distance=Location | | 9 | **sight** | | | Peronnik | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/24/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/)