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title: And turning to a soldier who came running up, waving his sword, he t… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And turning to a soldier who came running up, waving his sword, he touched him with the magic lance, and he fell dead on the spot. Who acts: Peronnik. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 19

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And turning to a soldier who came running up, waving his sword, he touched him with the magic lance, and he fell dead on the spot.

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**Who acts:** Peronnik · **What happens:** turn, come, run up, wave, touch, fall · **To what, where:** soldier, sword, trumpeter, spot

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. 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:pg3454:28:19
# text = And turning to a soldier who came running up, waving his sword, he touched him with the magic lance, and he fell dead on the spot.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
26	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  | a soldier |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to soldier=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **run up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wave** | gerund |  | Peronnik's sword |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient |
| 5 | **touch** | past | Peronnik | trumpeter |  |  |  | with the magic lance | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer with lance=Instrument |
| 6 | **fall** | past | Peronnik |  |  | the spot |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on spot=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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