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title: Then he ordered one of his ambassadors to mount a fleet horse and ri… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he ordered one of his ambassadors to mount a fleet horse and ride through the kingdom and find an owner for the glass shoe. Who acts: Prince, one. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 120

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Then he ordered one of his ambassadors to mount a fleet horse and ride through the kingdom and find an owner for the glass shoe.

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**Who acts:** Prince, one · **What happens:** order, mount, ride, find · **To what, where:** one, fleet horse, kingdom, owner

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, one), 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:pg14241:28:120
# text = Then he ordered one of his ambassadors to mount a fleet horse and ride through the kingdom and find an owner for the glass shoe.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	mount	mount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	owner	owner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	shoe	shoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Prince | one of Prince's ambassadors |  |  | then |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **mount** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | one of Prince's ambassadors *not said here* | a fleet horse |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **ride** | present | Prince *not said here* |  |  | the kingdom |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through kingdom=Trajectory |
| 4 | **find** | infinitive | Prince *not said here* | a owner |  |  |  | for the glass shoe | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent owner=Theme for shoe=Beneficiary |

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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:** «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.

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