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title: Soon there came riding by the Elfin court, first over the mound went… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon there came riding by the Elfin court, first over the mound went a troop on black steeds, and then another troop on brown. Who acts: mound. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 74

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Soon there came riding by the Elfin court, first over the mound went a troop on black steeds, and then another troop on brown.

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**Who acts:** mound · **What happens:** come, ride, go · **To what, where:** troop, black steeds

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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 (mound), 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:pg14241:29:74
# text = Soon there came riding by the Elfin court, first over the mound went a troop on black steeds, and then another troop on brown.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
11	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	troop	troop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	brown	brown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | another troop on brown |  | there |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by the Elfin court | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | past | the mound | a troop |  | black steeds |  | first *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location troop=Theme |

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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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