--- title: Drawing his whistle from his pocket, he blew it loudly, so as to dro… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Drawing his whistle from his pocket, he blew it loudly, so as to drown the sweet sounds about him, and ate what was left of his bread and bacon to still the craving of the magic fruits. Who acts: instant. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/77/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/) / 77 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 77 Drawing his whistle from his pocket, he blew it loudly, so as to drown the sweet sounds about him, and ate what was left of his bread and bacon to still the craving of the magic fruits. **Who acts:** instant · **What happens:** draw, blow, drown, eat, leave, whistle · **To what, where:** whistle, pocket, sweet sounds, magic fruits 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 (instant), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3454:27:77 # text = Drawing his whistle from his pocket, he blew it loudly, so as to drown the sweet sounds about him, and ate what was left of his bread and bacon to still the craving of the magic fruits. 1 Drawing draw VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 whistle whistle NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 pocket pocket NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 loudly loudly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 14 as as SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 drown drown VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 advcl _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 18 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 20 about about ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 ccomp _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 bacon bacon NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 34 still still ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 craving craving NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 advcl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ _ 40 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **draw** | gerund | | instant's whistle | | instant's pocket | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent whistle=Theme from pocket=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **blow** | past | instant | whistle | | | | loudly *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **drown** | to-infinitive | | the sweet sounds | | | | about instant | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient | | 4 | **eat** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | | | | | of instant's bread and bacon | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Source of bread=Destination | | 6 | **whistle** | | instant | | | | | | nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **crave** | | | the magic fruits | | | | | nom craving «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/78/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/27/)