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title: Behind them came a great rabble of men on foot armed with all sorts… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Behind them came a great rabble of men on foot armed with all sorts of weapons, and last of all was the king with his attendants, very nervous and ill at ease. Who acts: ankles. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 10

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Behind them came a great rabble of men on foot armed with all sorts of weapons, and last of all was the king with his attendants, very nervous and ill at ease.

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**Who acts:** ankles · **What happens:** come, be, sort · **To what, where:** great rabble, weapons

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ankles), 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:pg3454:16:10
# text = Behind them came a great rabble of men on foot armed with all sorts of weapons, and last of all was the king with his attendants, very nervous and ill at ease.
1	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rabble	rabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	nervous	nervous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | ankles *= ankle* | a great rabble of men on foot |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rabble=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of all king | tree rules |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | weapons |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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