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title: This time Peronnik did not trouble to take off his cap, but he threw… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time Peronnik did not trouble to take off his cap, but he threw the beads he carried with him into the water, as you throw black corn to a duck, and with each bead that he swallowed a dragon turned on his back and died, so that the idiot reached the other side without further trouble. Who acts:
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 62

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This time Peronnik did not trouble to take off his cap, but he threw the beads he carried with him into the water, as you throw black corn to a duck, and with each bead that he swallowed a dragon turned on his back and died, so that the idiot reached the other side without further trouble.

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**Who acts:** Peronnik, beads, you, idiot · **What happens:** do, take off, throw, carry, swallow, turn · **To what, where:** trouble, cap, water, black corn, duck, dragon

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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, beads, you, idiot), 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:pg3454:27:62
# text = This time Peronnik did not trouble to take off his cap, but he threw the beads he carried with him into the water, as you throw black corn to a duck, and with each bead that he swallowed a dragon turned on his back and died, so that the idiot reached the other side without further trouble.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	beads	bead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	throw	throw	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
29	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	det	_	_
38	bead	bead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
51	so	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	idiot	idiot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
57	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	58	amod	_	_
58	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
59	without	without	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Peronnik | trouble |  |  | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trouble=Eventuality |
| 2 | **take off** | to-infinitive | Peronnik *not said here* | Peronnik's cap |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 3 | **throw** | past | Peronnik |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **carry** | past | the beads |  |  | the water |  | with Peronnik | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **throw** | present | you | black corn | a duck |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent corn=Theme to duck=Destination |
| 6 | **swallow** | past | Peronnik | a dragon |  |  |  | with each bead | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient |
| 7 | **turn** | participle |  | a dragon *not said here* |  | Peronnik's back |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory |
| 8 | **die** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 9 | **reach** | past | the idiot | the other side |  |  |  | without further trouble | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=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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