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title: Then, on tiptoe, the idiot crept back to the colt which he led over… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, on tiptoe, the idiot crept back to the colt which he led over soft moss past the black man into the vale of pleasure, a delicious garden full of fruits that dangled before your mouth, fountains running with wine, and flowers chanting in soft little voices. Who acts: idiot, colt, fruits, founta
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 72

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Then, on tiptoe, the idiot crept back to the colt which he led over soft moss past the black man into the vale of pleasure, a delicious garden full of fruits that dangled before your mouth, fountains running with wine, and flowers chanting in soft little voices.

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**Who acts:** idiot, colt, fruits, fountains, flowers · **What happens:** creep back, lead, dangle, run, chant · **To what, where:** flowers, tiptoe, soft moss, mouth, soft little voices

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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 (idiot, colt, fruits, fountains), 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:pg3454:27:72
# text = Then, on tiptoe, the idiot crept back to the colt which he led over soft moss past the black man into the vale of pleasure, a delicious garden full of fruits that dangled before your mouth, fountains running with wine, and flowers chanting in soft little voices.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	idiot	idiot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	moss	moss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	past	past	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
32	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	fruits	fruit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	dangled	dangle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	_
37	before	before	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	fountains	fountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
42	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	41	acl	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
48	chanting	chant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep back** | past | the idiot | flowers |  | tiptoe | then | to the colt | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to colt=Destination |
| 2 | **lead** | past | the colt |  |  | soft moss |  | past the black man; into the vale of pleasure and a delicious garden | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over moss=Destination |
| 3 | **dangle** | past | fruits and fountains |  |  | your mouth |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before mouth=Location |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | fountains *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with wine | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with wine=Material |
| 5 | **chant** | gerund | flowers *not said here* |  |  | soft little voices |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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