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title: Then Moti continued to shower upon him blows and abuse until the poo… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Moti continued to shower upon him blows and abuse until the poor tiger could hardly stand, whereupon his tormentor tied the end of the broken halter round his neck and dragged him back to the serai. Who acts: Moti, poor tiger, tormentor. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 91

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Then Moti continued to shower upon him blows and abuse until the poor tiger could hardly stand, whereupon his tormentor tied the end of the broken halter round his neck and dragged him back to the serai.

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**Who acts:** Moti, poor tiger, tormentor · **What happens:** continue, shower, stand, tie, break, drag back · **To what, where:** blows, end, Moti, serai

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti, poor tiger, tormentor), 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:pg3454:15:91
# text = Then Moti continued to shower upon him blows and abuse until the poor tiger could hardly stand, whereupon his tormentor tied the end of the broken halter round his neck and dragged him back to the serai.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	shower	shower	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	abuse	abuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	tormentor	tormentor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
29	round	round	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	back	back	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	serai	serai	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | Moti |  |  |  | then |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **shower** | to-infinitive | Moti *not said here* | blows and abuse |  |  |  | upon Moti | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blow=Theme upon he=Destination |
| 3 | **stand** | could | the poor tiger |  |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tie** | past | Moti's tormentor | the end of the broken halter |  |  |  | round Moti's neck; whereupon *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Patient |
| 5 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **drag back** | past | Moti *not said here* | Moti |  | the serai |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to serai=Destination |

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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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