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title: Petru’s heart leaped at the sight, for all the way along he had been… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Petru’s heart leaped at the sight, for all the way along he had been followed by a crowd of shadowy figures who danced about him from right to left, and from back to front, and Petru, though a brave man, felt now and then a thrill of fear. Who acts: crowd, shadowy figures, heart. A sentence of «The 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 9

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Petru’s heart leaped at the sight, for all the way along he had been followed by a crowd of shadowy figures who danced about him from right to left, and from back to front, and Petru, though a brave man, felt now and then a thrill of fear.

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**Who acts:** crowd, shadowy figures, heart · **What happens:** leap, follow, dance, feel, thrill · **To what, where:** heart, sight, Petru, right, fear

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crowd, shadowy figures, heart), 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:pg641:21:9
# text = Petru’s heart leaped at the sight, for all the way along he had been followed by a crowd of shadowy figures who danced about him from right to left, and from back to front, and Petru, though a brave man, felt now and then a thrill of fear.
1	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
4	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	danced	dance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	left	left	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
40	Petru	Petru	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
47	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
48	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	47	advmod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	52	advmod	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	thrill	thrill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leap** | participle |  | Petru's heart and all way and back to front *not said here* |  | the sight |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Trajectory |
| 2 | **follow** | past · perfect · passive | a crowd of shadowy figures | Petru |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 3 | **dance** | past | shadowy figures |  |  | right to left |  | about Petru | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about he=Location |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Petru's heart and all way and back to front |  |  |  | now |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **thrill** |  |  | fear |  |  |  |  | nom thrill «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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