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title: Leaving the magician where he lay, Peronnik entered the palace, bear… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Leaving the magician where he lay, Peronnik entered the palace, bearing with him the flower that laughs. Who acts: Peronnik, idiot, flower. 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 5

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Leaving the magician where he lay, Peronnik entered the palace, bearing with him the flower that laughs.

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**Who acts:** Peronnik, idiot, flower · **What happens:** leave, lie, enter, bear, laugh · **To what, where:** magician, palace, flower

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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, idiot, flower), 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:pg3454:28:5
# text = Leaving the magician where he lay, Peronnik entered the palace, bearing with him the flower that laughs.
1	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | gerund | Peronnik *not said here* | the magician |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | past | idiot |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enter** | past | Peronnik | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination |
| 4 | **bear** | gerund | Peronnik *not said here* | the flower |  |  |  | with idiot | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient |
| 5 | **laugh** | present | the flower |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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