The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 22

Many of their horses too were quite upset by this whirlwind that galloped howling through their midst, and in a few minutes, after a little plunging and rearing and kicking, the whole troop were following on Moti’s heels.

Who acts: whirlwind, little plunging · What happens: be, gallop, howl, rear, kick, follow · To what, where: midst, heels

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whirlwind, little plunging), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 horses	case
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 horses	nmod:poss
4	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Many	nmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	8 upset	advmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 upset	cop
7	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 upset	advmod
8	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Many	advcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 whirlwind	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 whirlwind	det
11	whirlwind	whirlwind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 upset	obl
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 galloped	nsubj
13	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 whirlwind	acl:relcl
14	howling	howl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 galloped	xcomp
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 midst	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 midst	nmod:poss
17	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 howling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 following	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 following	cc
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 minutes	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 minutes	det
22	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 minutes	amod
23	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 following	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 plunging	punct
25	after	after	ADP	_	28 plunging	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 plunging	det
27	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 plunging	amod
28	plunging	plunging	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 minutes	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rearing	cc
30	rearing	rear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 plunging	acl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 kicking	cc
32	kicking	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 rearing	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 troop	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 troop	det
35	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 troop	amod
36	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 plunging	conj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 following	aux
38	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Many	parataxis
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 heels	case
40	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 heels	nmod:poss
41	’s	's	PART	_	40 Moti	case
42	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 following	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Many	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past				by this whirlwind; upset property	tree rules
2	gallop	past	this whirlwind				tree rules
3	howl	gerund	this whirlwind not said here	leg's midst			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through midst=Location
4	rear	gerund	a little plunging and the whole troop not said here				vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	kick	gerund	a little plunging and the whole troop not said here				vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	follow	past · progressive		Moti's heels	minute		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on heel=Location

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.

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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