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title: Petru was not deaf to their persuasion, and was just stooping to pic… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Petru was not deaf to their persuasion, and was just stooping to pick one when the horse sprang to one side. Who acts: Petru, horse, things. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1, sentence 121

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Petru was not deaf to their persuasion, and was just stooping to pick one when the horse sprang to one side.

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**Who acts:** Petru, horse, things · **What happens:** not be, stoop, pick, spring, persuade · **To what, where:** one, one side

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, horse, things), 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:pg641:19:121
# text = Petru was not deaf to their persuasion, and was just stooping to pick one when the horse sprang to one side.
1	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	persuasion	persuasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	pick	pick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obj	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | Petru |  |  |  |  | to things's persuasion; deaf *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stoop** | past · progressive | Petru *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pick** | to-infinitive | Petru *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
| 4 | **spring** | past | the horse |  |  | one side |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination |
| 5 | **persuade** |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom persuasion «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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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