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title: One fat officer alone could not keep up on foot with that mad rush,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: One fat officer alone could not keep up on foot with that mad rush, and as Moti came galloping up he flung himself on the ground in abject fear. Who acts: One fat officer, Moti. 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 39

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One fat officer alone could not keep up on foot with that mad rush, and as Moti came galloping up he flung himself on the ground in abject fear.

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**Who acts:** One fat officer, Moti · **What happens:** not keep up, come, gallop up, fling · **To what, where:** foot, Moti, ground

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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 (One fat officer, Moti), 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:pg3454:16:39
# text = One fat officer alone could not keep up on foot with that mad rush, and as Moti came galloping up he flung himself on the ground in abject fear.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	officer	officer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	Moti	Moti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
20	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	abject	abject	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep up** | could | One fat officer |  |  | foot |  | with that mad rush | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | Moti |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gallop up** | gerund | Moti *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fling** | past | Moti | Moti |  | the ground |  | in abject fear | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on ground=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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