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title: I have ridden all sorts of horses at home, and have never fallen off… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: I have ridden all sorts of horses at home, and have never fallen off not once. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 111

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I have ridden all sorts of horses at home, and have never fallen off not once.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** ride, not fall off, sort · **To what, where:** sorts, horses

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg2435:33:111
# text = I have ridden all sorts of horses at home, and have never fallen off not once.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present · perfect | I | all sorts of horses at home |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sort=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **fall off** | present · perfect | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **sort** |  |  | horses at home |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition 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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