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title: During his gallop his hair had become loosened, and was now flying w… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: During his gallop his hair had become loosened, and was now flying wildly in the air, and his shouts and adjurations to his horse increased the terror of his appearance. Who acts: hair, adjurations, Boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Defeate
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 11

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During his gallop his hair had become loosened, and was now flying wildly in the air, and his shouts and adjurations to his horse increased the terror of his appearance.

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**Who acts:** hair, adjurations, Boy · **What happens:** become, loosen, fly, shout, increase, gallop · **To what, where:** air, terror

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Defeated the Enemy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, adjurations, Boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:25:11
# text = During his gallop his hair had become loosened, and was now flying wildly in the air, and his shouts and adjurations to his horse increased the terror of his appearance.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	gallop	gallop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	loosened	loosen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
14	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	adjurations	adjuration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past · perfect | Boy's hair |  |  |  | during Boy's gallop |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **loosen** | participle | Boy's hair *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fly** | past · progressive | Boy's hair *not said here* |  |  | the air | now | wildly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  | Boy *nmod:poss* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **increase** | past | adjurations to Boy's horse | the terror of Boy's appearance |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer terror=Patient |
| 6 | **gallop** |  | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom gallop «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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