--- title: And then he sent them for rich clothes, and jewels, which he put on;… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And then he sent them for rich clothes, and jewels, which he put on; and he ordered them to saddle the white horse, with gold and silk, that he might ride to meet the King. Who acts: One, jewels. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, with its de --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/95/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/) / 95 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 95 And then he sent them for rich clothes, and jewels, which he put on; and he ordered them to saddle the white horse, with gold and silk, that he might ride to meet the King. **Who acts:** One, jewels · **What happens:** send, put on, order, saddle, ride, meet · **To what, where:** hair, white horse, King This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, jewels), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:20:95 # text = And then he sent them for rich clothes, and jewels, which he put on; and he ordered them to saddle the white horse, with gold and silk, that he might ride to meet the King. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj:outer _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 on on ADP RP _ 15 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 ordered order VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 saddle saddle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 meet meet VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | One | hair | | | then | for rich clothes and jewels | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 2 | **put on** | past | jewels | | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **order** | past | One | | hair | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 4 | **saddle** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | One *not said here* | | the white horse | | | with gold and silk | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Destination with gold=Theme | | 5 | **ride** | might | One | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **meet** | to-infinitive | One *not said here* | the King | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Co-Agent | 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/96/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/)