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title: After examining the horse, he studied the rider, who had such an inn… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After examining the horse, he studied the rider, who had such an innocent, and indeed vacant, air that he appeared incapable of inventing a story. Who acts: Peronnik, rider, incapable. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 31

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After examining the horse, he studied the rider, who had such an innocent, and indeed vacant, air that he appeared incapable of inventing a story.

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**Who acts:** Peronnik, rider, incapable · **What happens:** examine, study, have, appear, invent · **To what, where:** horse, rider, innocent, incapable, story

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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 (Peronnik, rider, incapable), 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:pg3454:27:31
# text = After examining the horse, he studied the rider, who had such an innocent, and indeed vacant, air that he appeared incapable of inventing a story.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	studied	study	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	15	det:predet	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	vacant	vacant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
25	incapable	incapable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	inventing	invent	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | gerund | Peronnik *not said here* | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 2 | **study** | past | Peronnik | the rider |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Topic |
| 3 | **have** | past | the rider | such innocent |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocent=Patient |
| 4 | **appear** | past | Peronnik | incapable |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location incapable=Theme |
| 5 | **invent** | gerund | incapable *not said here* | a story |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result |

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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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