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title: Peronnik heard, and, scarcely knowing what he did drew the colt into… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Peronnik heard, and, scarcely knowing what he did drew the colt into a slower pace. Who acts: Peronnik. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 74

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Peronnik heard, and, scarcely knowing what he did drew the colt into a slower pace.

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**Who acts:** Peronnik · **What happens:** hear, know, do, draw · **To what, where:** colt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg3454:27:74
# text = Peronnik heard, and, scarcely knowing what he did drew the colt into a slower pace.
1	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	11	nsubj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	pace	pace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Peronnik |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **know** | gerund | Peronnik *not said here* |  |  |  |  | scarcely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **do** | past | Peronnik |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **draw** | past |  | the colt |  |  |  | into a slower pace *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent colt=Patient into pace=Result |

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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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