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title: Others ride behind, and you will do well to retire before this whirl… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Others ride behind, and you will do well to retire before this whirlwind of destruction comes upon you.’ Who acts: Others, you, whirlwind. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 35

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Others ride behind, and you will do well to retire before this whirlwind of destruction comes upon you.’

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**Who acts:** Others, you, whirlwind · **What happens:** ride, do, retire, come

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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 (Others, you, whirlwind), 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:pg3454:16:35
# text = Others ride behind, and you will do well to retire before this whirlwind of destruction comes upon you.’
1	Others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	retire	retire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | Others |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | future | you |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **retire** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **come** | present | this whirlwind of destruction |  |  |  |  | upon you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon you=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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