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title: Then on he bounded, uttering such dreadful roars that the horses wer… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then on he bounded, uttering such dreadful roars that the horses were frightened and grew unmanageable, and he easily outstripped them, and soon reached the gates of the palace. Who acts: plan. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, with its dependency tr
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 74

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Then on he bounded, uttering such dreadful roars that the horses were frightened and grew unmanageable, and he easily outstripped them, and soon reached the gates of the palace.

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**Who acts:** plan · **What happens:** bound, utter, frighten, grow, outstrip, reach · **To what, where:** such dreadful roars, horses, gates

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan), 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:pg3282:18:74
# text = Then on he bounded, uttering such dreadful roars that the horses were frightened and grew unmanageable, and he easily outstripped them, and soon reached the gates of the palace.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bounded	bound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	uttering	utter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	roars	roar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
17	unmanageable	unmanageable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	outstripped	outstrip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | past | plan |  |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund | plan *not said here* | such dreadful roars |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent roar=Topic |
| 3 | **frighten** | past · passive |  | such dreadful roars |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 4 | **grow** | past |  |  |  |  |  | unmanageable *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **outstrip** | past | plan | horses *= horse* |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme |
| 6 | **reach** | past | plan *not said here* | the gates of the palace |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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