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title: The prince and his bride walked over the bridge, but the servant sai… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The prince and his bride walked over the bridge, but the servant said he would ride the horses through the stream so as to water and bathe them. Who acts: prince, servant. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 34

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The prince and his bride walked over the bridge, but the servant said he would ride the horses through the stream so as to water and bathe them.

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**Who acts:** prince, servant · **What happens:** walk, say, ride, bathe · **To what, where:** bridge, horses, stream, prince · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, servant), 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:pg2435:2:34
# text = The prince and his bride walked over the bridge, but the servant said he would ride the horses through the stream so as to water and bathe them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	26	case	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	bathe	bathe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | the prince and servant's bride |  |  | the bridge |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the servant |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **ride** | would | servant | the horses |  | the stream |  | as water | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme through stream=Trajectory |
| 4 | **bathe** | infinitive | servant *not said here* | prince |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |

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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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