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title: Luckily Grumedan did not perceive this, as he was too much occupied… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Luckily Grumedan did not perceive this, as he was too much occupied in whipping up the frogs, many of whom perished miserably from fatigue, since he did not allow them to rest for a moment. Who acts: Grumedan, many. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Prince
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# The Green Fairy Book, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, sentence 68

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Luckily Grumedan did not perceive this, as he was too much occupied in whipping up the frogs, many of whom perished miserably from fatigue, since he did not allow them to rest for a moment.

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**Who acts:** Grumedan, many · **What happens:** not perceive, be, whip up, perish, not allow, rest · **To what, where:** this, frogs, fatigue

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grumedan, many), 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:pg7277:11:68
# text = Luckily Grumedan did not perceive this, as he was too much occupied in whipping up the frogs, many of whom perished miserably from fatigue, since he did not allow them to rest for a moment.
1	Luckily	luckily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	Grumedan	Grumedan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	perceive	perceive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	occupied	occupied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	whipping	whip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nmod	_	_
23	perished	perish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
24	miserably	miserably	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
32	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
33	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	iobj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
36	for	for	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **perceive** | past · do-support | Grumedan | this |  |  |  | luckily *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | Grumedan |  |  |  |  | occupied *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **whip up** | gerund | Grumedan *not said here* | the frogs |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent frog=Material |
| 4 | **perish** | past | many |  |  | fatigue |  | miserably *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from fatigue=Causer |
| 5 | **not** **allow** | past · do-support | Grumedan |  | frogs *= frog* |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer they=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **rest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Grumedan *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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