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title: Slowly he walked to the stable, and laying his head on his horse’s s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Slowly he walked to the stable, and laying his head on his horse’s shoulder, he said: “The king has ordered me to bring his wife home again, and how can I do that when she disappeared so long ago, and no one can tell me anything about her?” Who acts: heart, king, wife, one. A sentence of «The Crimso
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 43

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Slowly he walked to the stable, and laying his head on his horse’s shoulder, he said: “The king has ordered me to bring his wife home again, and how can I do that when she disappeared so long ago, and no one can tell me anything about her?”

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**Who acts:** heart, king, wife, one · **What happens:** walk, lay, say, order, bring, do · **To what, where:** head, shoulder, heart, wife, that, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (heart, king, wife, one), 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:pg2435:14:43
# text = Slowly he walked to the stable, and laying his head on his horse’s shoulder, he said: “The king has ordered me to bring his wife home again, and how can I do that when she disappeared so long ago, and no one can tell me anything about her?”
1	Slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stable	stable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	ccomp	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
32	again	again	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	38	advmod	_	_
36	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
39	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	obj	_	_
40	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	advcl	_	_
43	so	so	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	45	advmod	_	_
45	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	det	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
52	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	51	iobj	_	_
53	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	51	obj	_	_
54	about	about	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | to the stable *result*; slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stable=Result |
| 2 | **lay** | gerund | heart *not said here* | heart's head |  | heart's horse's shoulder |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **order** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the king |  | heart |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bring** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* |  | heart's wife |  | again | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | can | heart | that |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 7 | **disappear** *in a quote* | past | wife |  |  |  |  | ago *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | no one | anything | heart |  |  | about wife | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Topic |

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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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