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title: He ordered his swiftest horse to be saddled, mounted, and rode off a… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He ordered his swiftest horse to be saddled, mounted, and rode off alone into a forest at some little distance. Who acts: king. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 61

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He ordered his swiftest horse to be saddled, mounted, and rode off alone into a forest at some little distance.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** order, saddle, mount, ride off · **To what, where:** swiftest horse, forest

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg2435:35:61
# text = He ordered his swiftest horse to be saddled, mounted, and rode off alone into a forest at some little distance.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	swiftest	swift	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	saddled	saddle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	off	off	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | king |  | king's swiftest horse |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 2 | **saddle** | to-infinitive · passive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» |
| 3 | **mount** | participle | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ride off** | past | king *not said here* |  |  | a forest |  | at some little distance; alone *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into forest=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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