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title: From words they came to blows, and the women, frightened at the dist… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: From words they came to blows, and the women, frightened at the disturbance, pelted Tephany with insulting names. Who acts: words, women. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 23

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From words they came to blows, and the women, frightened at the disturbance, pelted Tephany with insulting names.

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**Who acts:** words, women · **What happens:** come, frighten, pelt · **To what, where:** words, women, disturbance, Tephany

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, women), 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:pg3454:33:23
# text = From words they came to blows, and the women, frightened at the disturbance, pelted Tephany with insulting names.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	pelted	pelt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	Tephany	Tephany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	insulting	insulting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | words *= word* |  |  | words |  | to blows | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from word=Initial\_Location to blow=Destination |
| 2 | **frighten** | participle |  | the women *not said here* |  | the disturbance |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **pelt** | past | the women |  | Tephany |  |  | with insulting names | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tephany=Destination with name=Theme |

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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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