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title: ‘With all respect,’ answered Peronnik, pretending to be very frighte… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘With all respect,’ answered Peronnik, pretending to be very frightened, ‘I am the servant of a lady who is a friend of the noble Rogear and sends him some larks for a pasty.’ Who acts: I, lady. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency t
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 48

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‘With all respect,’ answered Peronnik, pretending to be very frightened, ‘I am the servant of a lady who is a friend of the noble Rogear and sends him some larks for a pasty.’

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**Who acts:** I, lady · **What happens:** answer, pretend, be, send · **To what, where:** Peronnik, servant, friend, larks

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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 (I, lady), 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:pg3454:27:48
# text = ‘With all respect,’ answered Peronnik, pretending to be very frightened, ‘I am the servant of a lady who is a friend of the noble Rogear and sends him some larks for a pasty.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	frightened	frightened	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	acl:relcl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Rogear	Rogear	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	36	det	_	_
36	larks	lark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	pasty	pasty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Peronnik |  |  | with all respect | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peronnik=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pretend** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | frightened *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | I | the servant |  |  |  | of a lady | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | a lady | a friend |  |  |  | of the noble Rogear | tree rules |
| 6 | **send** | present |  | some larks | Peronnik |  |  | for a pasty | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination lark=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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