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description: The colt, who was accustomed to it, plunged into the water without hesitation; but as soon as the dragons caught sight of Peronnik they approached from all parts of the lake in order to devour him. Who acts: colt, dragons. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, pa
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 61

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The colt, who was accustomed to it, plunged into the water without hesitation; but as soon as the dragons caught sight of Peronnik they approached from all parts of the lake in order to devour him.

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**Who acts:** colt, dragons · **What happens:** accustom, plunge, catch, approach, devour, sight · **To what, where:** colt, lake, water, sight, parts, Peronnik

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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 (colt, dragons), 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:pg3454:27:61
# text = The colt, who was accustomed to it, plunged into the water without hesitation; but as soon as the dragons caught sight of Peronnik they approached from all parts of the lake in order to devour him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	plunged	plunge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	38	mark	_	_
36	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	fixed	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	acl	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | the colt | lake |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **plunge** | participle |  |  |  | the water |  | without hesitation | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **catch** | past | the colt | sight of Peronnik |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 4 | **approach** | past | dragons *= dragon* |  |  | all parts of the lake |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **devour** | to-infinitive | dragons *= dragon* *not said here* | colt |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | Peronnik |  |  |  |  | nom sight «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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