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title: The Cossack, on his small horse, rides lightly o'er the plains; but… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The Cossack, on his small horse, rides lightly o'er the plains; but lighter still passed the prince on the winds of the wind. Who acts: Cossack. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Garden of Paradise, sentence 142

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The Cossack, on his small horse, rides lightly o'er the plains; but lighter still passed the prince on the winds of the wind.

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**Who acts:** Cossack · **What happens:** ride, pass, wind · **To what, where:** prince, winds, wind

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Garden of Paradise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cossack), 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:pg27200:140:142
# text = The Cossack, on his small horse, rides lightly o'er the plains; but lighter still passed the prince on the winds of the wind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Cossack	cossack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	o'er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | present | the Cossack and eagle's small horse |  |  |  |  | o'er the plains; lightly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pass** | past | the Cossack and eagle's small horse *not said here* | the prince |  | the winds of the wind | still |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent prince=Theme on wind=Destination |
| 3 | **wind** |  |  | the wind |  |  |  |  | nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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