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title: They both mounted richly caparisoned horses and rode across the plai… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They both mounted richly caparisoned horses and rode across the plain at the head of their followers. Who acts: arms. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 104

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They both mounted richly caparisoned horses and rode across the plain at the head of their followers.

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**Who acts:** arms · **What happens:** mount, caparison, ride · **To what, where:** caparisoned horses, plain

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arms), 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:pg2435:34:104
# text = They both mounted richly caparisoned horses and rode across the plain at the head of their followers.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	both	both	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	caparisoned	caparison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	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 | **mount** | past | arms *= arm* | caparisoned horses |  |  |  | both *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 2 | **caparison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | richly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride** | past | arms *= arm* *not said here* |  |  | the plain |  | at the head of arms's followers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across plain=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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