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title: She rode proudly before them, dressed in uniform; but they had not l… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She rode proudly before them, dressed in uniform; but they had not left the town more than a mile behind them, when they met the lad and his little sword. Who acts: princess, troops. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 21

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She rode proudly before them, dressed in uniform; but they had not left the town more than a mile behind them, when they met the lad and his little sword.

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**Who acts:** princess, troops · **What happens:** ride, dress, not leave, meet · **To what, where:** uniform, town, lad

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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 (princess, troops), 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:pg2435:8:21
# text = She rode proudly before them, dressed in uniform; but they had not left the town more than a mile behind them, when they met the lad and his little sword.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	before	before	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	uniform	uniform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
19	than	than	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | princess |  |  |  | before troops | proudly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dress** | participle | princess *not said here* |  |  | uniform |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **leave** | past · perfect | troops | the town |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | past | troops | the lad and youth's little sword |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Co-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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