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title: As he began to saddle his horse and prepare to ride to the pillar, h… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As he began to saddle his horse and prepare to ride to the pillar, he could not help having some remorseful thoughts of the trick he had played and the blighted hopes of the real prince. Who acts: Tailor, real prince. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, par
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 74

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As he began to saddle his horse and prepare to ride to the pillar, he could not help having some remorseful thoughts of the trick he had played and the blighted hopes of the real prince.

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**Who acts:** Tailor, real prince · **What happens:** begin, saddle, prepare, ride, not help, have · **To what, where:** horse, pillar, remorseful thoughts, trick

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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 (Tailor, real prince), 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:pg2435:34:74
# text = As he began to saddle his horse and prepare to ride to the pillar, he could not help having some remorseful thoughts of the trick he had played and the blighted hopes of the real prince.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	saddle	saddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
20	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	xcomp	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
22	remorseful	remorseful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trick	trick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	blighted	blight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **begin** | past | Tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **saddle** | to-infinitive | Tailor *not said here* |  | Tailor's horse |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination |
| 3 | **prepare** | infinitive | Tailor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **ride** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tailor *not said here* |  |  | the pillar |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to pillar=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **help** | could | Tailor |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **have** *not said to happen* | gerund | Tailor *not said here* | some remorseful thoughts of the trick and the blighted hopes of the real prince |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 7 | **play** | past · perfect | Tailor | the trick *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 8 | **blight** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **think** |  |  | the trick |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 10 | **hope** |  | the real prince |  |  |  |  |  | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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