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title: Punctual to their hour all three appeared, eagerly watched by Peronn… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Punctual to their hour all three appeared, eagerly watched by Peronnik, who lay hid in the bushes close by. Who acts: three, 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 9

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Punctual to their hour all three appeared, eagerly watched by Peronnik, who lay hid in the bushes close by.

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**Who acts:** three, Peronnik · **What happens:** appear, watch, lie, hide · **To what, where:** bushes

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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 (three, 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:pg3454:27:9
# text = Punctual to their hour all three appeared, eagerly watched by Peronnik, who lay hid in the bushes close by.
1	Punctual	punctual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
7	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bushes	bush	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
20	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | all three |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **watch** | participle | all three *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Peronnik; eagerly *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by peronnik=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | Peronnik |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hide** | past | Peronnik *not said here* |  |  | the bushes |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location |

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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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