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title: He raved wildly both against King and people, and the cortege retire… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He raved wildly both against King and people, and the cortege retired in great confusion, jeered at and pelted with stones and mud by the enraged crowd. Who acts: Ambassador. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Green Fairy Book, Heart of Ice, part 3, sentence 72

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He raved wildly both against King and people, and the cortege retired in great confusion, jeered at and pelted with stones and mud by the enraged crowd.

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**Who acts:** Ambassador · **What happens:** rave, retire, jeer, pelt, enrage · **To what, where:** both, cortege, great confusion

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Heart of Ice, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ambassador), 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:pg7277:16:72
# text = He raved wildly both against King and people, and the cortege retired in great confusion, jeered at and pelted with stones and mud by the enraged crowd.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raved	rave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
5	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cortege	cortege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	jeered	jeer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pelted	pelt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	mud	mud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rave** *speech: other* | past | Ambassador | both |  |  |  | against King and people; wildly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **retire** | participle |  | the cortege *not said here* |  | great confusion |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **jeer** | participle · passive |  | the cortege |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **pelt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with stones and mud; by the enraged crowd | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with stone=Theme |
| 5 | **enrage** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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