--- title: He tied his horse to a tree, and followed where the sound led him, a… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He tied his horse to a tree, and followed where the sound led him, and, to his surprise, he saw before him a beautiful girl chopping wood, with a wreath of pink rose-buds, out of which the singing came. Who acts: son, sound, beautiful girl, singing. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew La --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/76/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/) / 76 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 76 He tied his horse to a tree, and followed where the sound led him, and, to his surprise, he saw before him a beautiful girl chopping wood, with a wreath of pink rose-buds, out of which the singing came. **Who acts:** son, sound, beautiful girl, singing · **What happens:** tie, follow, lead, see, chop, come · **To what, where:** horse, son, beautiful girl, wood, wreath This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, sound, beautiful girl, singing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3027:12:76 # text = He tied his horse to a tree, and followed where the sound led him, and, to his surprise, he saw before him a beautiful girl chopping wood, with a wreath of pink rose-buds, out of which the singing came. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 tied tie 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 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 surprise surprise NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 before before ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obl _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 30 chopping chop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 29 acl _ _ 31 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 wreath wreath NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 38 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 buds bud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 out out ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 47 obl _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 singing singing NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 47 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tie** | past | son | son's horse | | | | to a tree | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | | 2 | **follow** | past | son *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **lead** | past | the sound | son | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 4 | **see** | past | son | a beautiful girl | | | before sound | to son's surprise; with a wreath of pink rose buds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | | 5 | **chop** | gerund | a beautiful girl *not said here* | wood | | | | | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | | 6 | **come** | past | the singing | | | a wreath of pink rose buds | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme out which=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **surprise** | | son | | | | | | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **Text:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/77/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/12/)