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title: The dappled fawn, on wooded lawn, peeped out upon the birch canoe, S… — Legends of the Northwest · tree and pragmatics
description: The dappled fawn, on wooded lawn, peeped out upon the birch canoe, Swift-gliding in the gray of dawn along the silent waters blue. Who acts: dappled fawn. A sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2, sentence 92

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The dappled fawn, on wooded lawn, peeped out upon the birch canoe, Swift-gliding in the gray of dawn along the silent waters blue.

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**Who acts:** dappled fawn · **What happens:** dapple, wood, peep out, glide · **To what, where:** gray, dappled fawn

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dappled fawn), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8122:19:92
# text = The dappled fawn, on wooded lawn, peeped out upon the birch canoe, Swift-gliding in the gray of dawn along the silent waters blue.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	dappled	dapple	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	fawn	fawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	wooded	wood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	canoe	canoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	Swift	Swift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	along	along	ADP	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dapple** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **peep out** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upon the birch canoe | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon canoe=Theme |
| 4 | **glide** | gerund | the dappled fawn and wooded lawn and Swift *not said here* |  |  | the gray of dawn |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gray=Trajectory |

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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:** «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (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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