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title: And I shall ride by her side upon a milk-white steed with a star in… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And I shall ride by her side upon a milk-white steed with a star in my crown; they give me this honour as being a christened knight. Who acts: I, Elves, my. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 66

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And I shall ride by her side upon a milk-white steed with a star in my crown; they give me this honour as being a christened knight.

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**Who acts:** I, Elves, my · **What happens:** ride, give, christen, be, crown · **To what, where:** crown, honour, me

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Elves, my), 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:pg14241:29:66
# text = And I shall ride by her side upon a milk-white steed with a star in my crown; they give me this honour as being a christened knight.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	iobj	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	christened	christen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | shall | I |  |  | my crown |  | by court's side; upon a white steed with a star | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **give** | present | Elves *= elf* | this honour | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient honour=Theme |
| 3 | **christen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | as a christened knight | tree rules |
| 5 | **crown** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication 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:** «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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