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title: He had put down the sword on the grass, and Peronnik had been carefu… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He had put down the sword on the grass, and Peronnik had been careful to fix the net on the other side of the tree, so that it was now easy for him to pluck an apple and to mount his horse, without being hindered by the dwarf, whom he left to his fate. Who acts: sorry, Peronnik, dwarf. A sentence of
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 41

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He had put down the sword on the grass, and Peronnik had been careful to fix the net on the other side of the tree, so that it was now easy for him to pluck an apple and to mount his horse, without being hindered by the dwarf, whom he left to his fate.

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**Who acts:** sorry, Peronnik, dwarf · **What happens:** put down, be, fix, pluck, mount, hinder · **To what, where:** sword, grass, net, other side, apple, horse

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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 (sorry, Peronnik, dwarf), 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:pg3454:27:41
# text = He had put down the sword on the grass, and Peronnik had been careful to fix the net on the other side of the tree, so that it was now easy for him to pluck an apple and to mount his horse, without being hindered by the dwarf, whom he left to his fate.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
15	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fix	fix	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	33	mark	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	fixed	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	expl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	pluck	pluck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	csubj	_	_
38	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	conj	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	48	aux:pass	_	_
48	hindered	hinder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	conj	_	_
49	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	dwarf	dwarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
53	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	55	obj	_	_
54	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	acl:relcl	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	58	nmod:poss	_	_
58	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put down** | past · perfect | sorry | the sword |  | the grass |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme on grass=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | Peronnik |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fix** | to-infinitive | Peronnik *not said here* | the net |  | the other side of the tree |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent net=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past | sorry *not said here* |  |  |  | now | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pluck** | to-infinitive | sorry | a apple |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=Patient |
| 6 | **mount** | to-infinitive | sorry *not said here* | sorry's horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 7 | **hinder** | gerund · passive | the dwarf |  |  |  |  |  | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 8 | **leave** | past | sorry | the dwarf | sorry's fate |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Theme to fate=Recipient |
| 9 | **fate** |  | sorry |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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