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title: This time, however, the emperor sent two men on horseback to ride be… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: This time, however, the emperor sent two men on horseback to ride behind him, with orders to watch the prince all day long. Who acts: emperor. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 101

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This time, however, the emperor sent two men on horseback to ride behind him, with orders to watch the prince all day long.

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**Who acts:** emperor · **What happens:** send, ride, watch · **To what, where:** two men, horseback, prince

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emperor), 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:pg2435:8:101
# text = This time, however, the emperor sent two men on horseback to ride behind him, with orders to watch the prince all day long.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	emperor	emperor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
15	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | the emperor | two men |  | horseback | time | however *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | to-infinitive | the emperor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | behind emperor; with orders | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the emperor *not said here* | the prince |  |  | day | long *property* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |

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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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