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title: and instantly the colt appeared, frisking and jumping to the wizard,… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: and instantly the colt appeared, frisking and jumping to the wizard, who threw a halter over his neck and leapt on his back. Who acts: colt, wizard. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 1

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and instantly the colt appeared, frisking and jumping to the wizard, who threw a halter over his neck and leapt on his back.

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**Who acts:** colt, wizard · **What happens:** appear, frisk, jump, throw · **To what, where:** halter, neck

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (colt, wizard), 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:pg3454:27:1
# text = and instantly the colt appeared, frisking and jumping to the wizard, who threw a halter over his neck and leapt on his back.
1	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	frisking	frisk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wizard	wizard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	halter	halter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	leapt	leapt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | the colt |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **frisk** | gerund | the colt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **jump** | gerund | the colt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the wizard *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to wizard=Result |
| 4 | **throw** | past | the wizard | a halter |  | colt's neck and leapt |  | on colt's back | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent halter=Theme over neck=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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