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title: palfrey — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «palfrey» in the school dictionary: A gentle horse ridden by a lady or a knight, not a war horse. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# palfrey

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**Who acts:** He, I, palfrey · **What happens:** ride, change, perch, have, saddle · **To what, where:** gentle horse, old mare, She, forest

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«palfrey» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [palfrey in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/palfrey.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Usage: old use, in fairy tales — kept apart, not parsed.

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A gentle horse ridden by a lady or a knight, not a war horse.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:palfrey:m1:1
# text = A gentle horse ridden by a lady or a knight, not a war horse.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	gentle	gentle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | participle |  | a gentle horse *not said here* |  |  |  | by a lady or a knight and a war horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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He changed the old mare into a brisk piebald palfrey.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:palfrey:x1:1
# text = He changed the old mare into a brisk piebald palfrey.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	brisk	brisk	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	piebald	piebald	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	palfrey	palfrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | He | the old mare |  |  |  | into a brisk piebald palfrey *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent mare=Patient into palfrey=Result |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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She was perched on a magnificent palfrey.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:palfrey:x2:1
# text = She was perched on a magnificent palfrey.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	perched	perch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	palfrey	palfrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perch** | past · passive |  | She |  |  |  | on a magnificent palfrey | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on palfrey=Destination |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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I had my palfrey saddled and rode to the forest.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:palfrey:x3:1
# text = I had my palfrey saddled and rode to the forest.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	palfrey	palfrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saddled	saddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **saddle** | past | my palfrey |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ride** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | the forest |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to forest=Trajectory |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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