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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 76

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Then she knew this was her own Tamlane, and springing forward she seized the bridle of the milk-white steed and pulled its rider down.

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**Who acts:** court, this · **What happens:** know, be, spring, seize, pull down · **To what, where:** own Tamlane, bridle, rider · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (court, this), 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:pg14241:29:76
# text = Then she knew this was her own Tamlane, and springing forward she seized the bridle of the milk-white steed and pulled its rider down.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Tamlane	Tamlane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	springing	spring	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	csubj	_	_
12	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | court |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | court's own Tamlane |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spring** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **seize** | past | court | the bridle of the white steed |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme |
| 5 | **pull down** | past | court *not said here* | steed's rider |  |  |  | down *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=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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