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title: And as the bowl restored all the dead Bretons to life, Peronnik soon… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as the bowl restored all the dead Bretons to life, Peronnik soon had an army large enough to drive away the French, and fulfilled his promise of delivering his country. Who acts: bowl, Peronnik, promise. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, with its
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 26

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And as the bowl restored all the dead Bretons to life, Peronnik soon had an army large enough to drive away the French, and fulfilled his promise of delivering his country.

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**Who acts:** bowl, Peronnik, promise · **What happens:** restore, have, drive away, fulfil, deliver, promise · **To what, where:** dead Bretons, life, army, promise, country

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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 (bowl, Peronnik, promise), 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:pg3454:28:26
# text = And as the bowl restored all the dead Bretons to life, Peronnik soon had an army large enough to drive away the French, and fulfilled his promise of delivering his country.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Bretons	breton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
13	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	delivering	deliver	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **restore** | past | the bowl | all dead Bretons | life |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent breton=Theme to life=Recipient |
| 2 | **have** | past | Peronnik | a army |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
| 3 | **drive away** | to-infinitive | Peronnik *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fulfil** | past | Peronnik *not said here* | Peronnik's promise |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **deliver** | gerund | Peronnik's promise *not said here* | Peronnik's country |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |
| 6 | **promise** |  | Peronnik |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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