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title: So Paperarello examined the horses carefully, but instead of picking… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: So Paperarello examined the horses carefully, but instead of picking out one of the splendid well-groomed creatures, whose skin shone like satin, he chose a poor lame thing, put a saddle on it, and rode after the other men-at-arms who were attending the king. Who acts: Paperarello, poor lame thing, 
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 44

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So Paperarello examined the horses carefully, but instead of picking out one of the splendid well-groomed creatures, whose skin shone like satin, he chose a poor lame thing, put a saddle on it, and rode after the other men-at-arms who were attending the king.

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**Who acts:** Paperarello, poor lame thing, arms · **What happens:** examine, pick out, groom, shine, choose, put · **To what, where:** horses, skin, poor lame thing, saddle, king

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paperarello, poor lame thing, arms), 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:pg2435:13:44
# text = So Paperarello examined the horses carefully, but instead of picking out one of the splendid well-groomed creatures, whose skin shone like satin, he chose a poor lame thing, put a saddle on it, and rode after the other men-at-arms who were attending the king.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Paperarello	Paperarello	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	nsubj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	groomed	groom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
24	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
31	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
32	lame	lame	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	after	after	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	at	at	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
51	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	53	nsubj	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	attending	attend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	acl:relcl	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past | Paperarello | the horses |  |  |  | one of the splendid groomed creatures *obl*; carefully *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 2 | **pick out** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **groom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **shine** | participle |  | the splendid groomed creatures's skin *not said here* |  |  |  | like satin | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **choose** | past | Paperarello | a poor lame thing |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 6 | **put** | infinitive | a poor lame thing *not said here* | a saddle |  |  |  | on horse | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme on it=Destination |
| 7 | **ride** | past | Paperarello *not said here* |  |  |  | after the other men at arms |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **attend** | past · progressive | arms |  | the king |  |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Goal |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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