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title: At one end he perceived a small skiff, painted blue and shaped like… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At one end he perceived a small skiff, painted blue and shaped like a swan, lying under a clump of yellow broom. Who acts: Houarn. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 113

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At one end he perceived a small skiff, painted blue and shaped like a swan, lying under a clump of yellow broom.

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**Who acts:** Houarn · **What happens:** perceive, paint, shape, lie · **To what, where:** small skiff, one end, clump

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Houarn), 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:pg3454:33:113
# text = At one end he perceived a small skiff, painted blue and shaped like a swan, lying under a clump of yellow broom.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	skiff	skiff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	painted	paint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	clump	clump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | Houarn | a small skiff |  |  | at one end |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer skiff=Stimulus |
| 2 | **paint** | participle |  | a small skiff *not said here* |  |  |  | blue *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shape** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | like a swan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | a clump of yellow broom |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under clump=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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