--- title: He galloped on as hard as he could, and on arriving found nine men-s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He galloped on as hard as he could, and on arriving found nine men-servants in the act of tying Queen Ingiborg to a post in the courtyard of the palace, where they intended to burn her. Who acts: giant, act, servants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (giant, act, servants), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg2435:2977`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:34:16 # text = He galloped on as hard as he could, and on arriving found nine men-servants in the act of tying Queen Ingiborg to a post in the courtyard of the palace, where they intended to burn her. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 galloped gallop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 on on ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 as as ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hard hard ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 on on SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 arriving arrive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 advcl _ _ 13 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 14 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ _ 17 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 act act NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 of of SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 tying tie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 23 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 Ingiborg Ingiborg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 flat _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 post post NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 courtyard courtyard NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 37 advmod _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 intended intend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 burn burn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gallop** | past | giant | | | | | hard *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **arrive** | gerund | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | giant *not said here* | men servants | | the act | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Topic | | 4 | **tie** | gerund | the act *not said here* | Queen | | | | to a post in the courtyard of the palace | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent queen=Patient to post=Co-Patient | | 5 | **intend** | past | servants *= servant* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **burn** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | servants *= servant* *not said here* | Queen | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme | 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. **Text:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/17/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/34/)