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title: Very unwillingly the young man put on the coat and mounted the horse… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Very unwillingly the young man put on the coat and mounted the horse, and rode up to meet the king, with the fox running before him. Who acts: fox. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 84

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Very unwillingly the young man put on the coat and mounted the horse, and rode up to meet the king, with the fox running before him.

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**Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** put, mount, ride up, meet, run · **To what, where:** young man, horse, king

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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:pg2435:25:84
# text = Very unwillingly the young man put on the coat and mounted the horse, and rode up to meet the king, with the fox running before him.
1	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	unwillingly	unwillingly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:agent	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | participle |  | the young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mount** | past |  | the horse |  |  |  | unwillingly *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 3 | **ride up** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | the king |  |  |  | with the fox | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent king=Theme with fox=Instrument |
| 5 | **run** | gerund | the fox *not said here* |  |  |  | before fox |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Trajectory |

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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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