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title: Many of their horses too were quite upset by this whirlwind that gal… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of their horses too were quite upset by this whirlwind that galloped howling through their midst, and in a few minutes, after a little plunging and rearing and kicking, the whole troop were following on Moti’s heels. Who acts: whirlwind, little plunging. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by 
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 22

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Many of their horses too were quite upset by this whirlwind that galloped howling through their midst, and in a few minutes, after a little plunging and rearing and kicking, the whole troop were following on Moti’s heels.

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**Who acts:** whirlwind, little plunging · **What happens:** be, gallop, howl, rear, kick, follow · **To what, where:** midst, heels

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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 (whirlwind, little plunging), 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:pg3454:16:22
# text = Many of their horses too were quite upset by this whirlwind that galloped howling through their midst, and in a few minutes, after a little plunging and rearing and kicking, the whole troop were following on Moti’s heels.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	upset	upset	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	howling	howl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	xcomp	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	plunging	plunging	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	rearing	rear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	kicking	kick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | by this whirlwind; upset *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gallop** | past | this whirlwind |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **howl** | gerund | this whirlwind *not said here* |  |  | leg's midst |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through midst=Location |
| 4 | **rear** | gerund | a little plunging and the whole troop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **kick** | gerund | a little plunging and the whole troop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **follow** | past · progressive |  |  |  | Moti's heels | minute |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on heel=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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