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title: Some of them were old favourites which the king had ridden in many w… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of them were old favourites which the king had ridden in many wars, and they bore the signs of age and of service. Who acts: Some, king, wars. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 20

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Some of them were old favourites which the king had ridden in many wars, and they bore the signs of age and of service.

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**Who acts:** Some, king, wars · **What happens:** be, ride, bear, sign · **To what, where:** old favourites, many wars, signs, age

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, 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 (Some, king, wars), 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:pg2435:14:20
# text = Some of them were old favourites which the king had ridden in many wars, and they bore the signs of age and of service.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	favourites	favourite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Some | old favourites |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **ride** | past · perfect | the king | old favourites |  | many wars |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | past | wars *= war* | the signs of age and service |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Patient |
| 4 | **sign** |  |  | age |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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