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title: Going as fast as the hobbles would allow, the colt turned into one o… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Going as fast as the hobbles would allow, the colt turned into one of the wildest parts of the forest, while its rider sat trembling at the strange sights he saw. Who acts: colt, hobbles, rider. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, with its dependency t
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 14

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Going as fast as the hobbles would allow, the colt turned into one of the wildest parts of the forest, while its rider sat trembling at the strange sights he saw.

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**Who acts:** colt, hobbles, rider · **What happens:** go, allow, turn, sit, tremble, see · **To what, where:** strange sights

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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, hobbles, rider), 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:pg3454:27:14
# text = Going as fast as the hobbles would allow, the colt turned into one of the wildest parts of the forest, while its rider sat trembling at the strange sights he saw.
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hobbles	hobble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wildest	wild	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sights	sight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund | the colt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **allow** | would | the hobbles |  |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **turn** | past | the colt |  |  |  |  | into one of the wildest parts of the forest | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sit** | past | bread's rider |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tremble** | gerund | bread's rider *not said here* |  |  | the strange sights |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location |
| 6 | **see** | past | colt | the strange sights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus |

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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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