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title: When they had left the plain behind them, Peronnik and his steed fou… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 42

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When they had left the plain behind them, Peronnik and his steed found themselves in a narrow valley in which was a grove of trees, full of all sorts of sweet-smelling things--roses of every colour, yellow broom, pink honeysuckle--while above them all towered a wonderful scarlet pansy whose face bore a strange expression.

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**Who acts:** horses, Peronnik, face · **What happens:** leave, find, be, smell, tower, bear · **To what, where:** plain, horses, narrow valley, grove, wonderful scarlet pansy, strange expression

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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 (horses, Peronnik, face), 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:pg3454:27:42
# text = When they had left the plain behind them, Peronnik and his steed found themselves in a narrow valley in which was a grove of trees, full of all sorts of sweet-smelling things--roses of every colour, yellow broom, pink honeysuckle--while above them all towered a wonderful scarlet pansy whose face bore a strange expression.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	amod	_	_
36	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	appos	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	honeysuckle	honeysuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	above	above	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	_
52	all	all	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	towered	tower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
55	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
56	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	pansy	pansy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
58	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	nsubj	_	_
60	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	acl:relcl	_	_
61	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
62	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	63	amod	_	_
63	expression	expression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | horses *= horse* | the plain |  |  |  | behind trees *= tree* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent plain=Theme behind they=Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | Peronnik and Peronnik's steed | horses *= horse* |  | a narrow valley |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Topic |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | a grove |  | a narrow valley |  | of trees | tree rules |
| 4 | **smell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn smell\_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tower** | past | Peronnik and Peronnik's steed *not said here* | a wonderful scarlet pansy |  |  |  | above horses *= horse*; all *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pansy=Theme |
| 6 | **bear** | past | face | a strange expression |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expression=Patient |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | smelling things  yellow broom and pink honeysuckle |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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