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title: And how he bawled and roared! and the servants that he used to be bo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And how he bawled and roared! and the servants that he used to be boasting to were soon flocking from the castle, and grinning, and huzzaing, and beating tunes on tongs and shovels and pans; and he cursing and swearing, and the eyes ready to start out of his head, and he so black in the face, and ki
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 84

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And how he bawled and roared! and the servants that he used to be boasting to were soon flocking from the castle, and grinning, and huzzaing, and beating tunes on tongs and shovels and pans; and he cursing and swearing, and the eyes ready to start out of his head, and he so black in the face, and kicking out his legs behind him like mad.

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**Who acts:** life, servants · **What happens:** bawl, roar, use, boast, flock, grin · **To what, where:** servants, castle, tunes, head, legs

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life, servants), 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:pg3454:13:84
# text = And how he bawled and roared! and the servants that he used to be boasting to were soon flocking from the castle, and grinning, and huzzaing, and beating tunes on tongs and shovels and pans; and he cursing and swearing, and the eyes ready to start out of his head, and he so black in the face, and kicking out his legs behind him like mad.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	bawled	bawl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux	_	_
16	boasting	boast	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	flocking	flock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	grinning	grin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	huzzaing	huzza	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
33	tunes	tune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	tongs	tong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	shovels	shovel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	pans	pan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	cursing	curse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	swearing	swear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
50	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	advcl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	out	out	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
59	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	61	nsubj	_	_
60	so	so	ADV	RB	_	61	advmod	_	_
61	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	67	cc	_	_
67	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
68	out	out	ADP	RP	_	67	compound:prt	_	_
69	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	70	nmod:poss	_	_
70	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	obj	_	_
71	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	72	case	_	_
72	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	obl	_	_
73	like	like	ADP	IN	_	74	case	_	_
74	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
75	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bawl** *speech: other* | past | life |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **roar** | past | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | past | life | the servants |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 4 | **boast** *speech: other* | to-infinitive · progressive | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **flock** | past · progressive | the servants |  |  | the castle |  | soon *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **grin** | gerund | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **huzza** | gerund | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **beat** | gerund | life *not said here* | tunes |  |  |  | on tongs and shovels and pans | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent tune=Instrument on tong=Patient |
| 9 | **curse** | gerund | life |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **swear** | gerund | life *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **start out** | to-infinitive | life *not said here* | eye's head |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Eventuality |
| 12 | **kick out** | gerund | life *not said here* | eye's legs |  |  |  | behind eye; like mad | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leg=Patient behind he=Location |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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