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title: He flung himself on his horse, which went like the wind, and as the… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He flung himself on his horse, which went like the wind, and as the prince had often hunted the forest before, and knew all the short cuts, he at last came up with the panting beast. Who acts: son, horse. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25, with its dependency tre
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 66

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He flung himself on his horse, which went like the wind, and as the prince had often hunted the forest before, and knew all the short cuts, he at last came up with the panting beast.

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**Who acts:** son, horse · **What happens:** fling, go, hunt, know, come up · **To what, where:** son, forest, short cuts

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, horse), 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:pg3027:25:66
# text = He flung himself on his horse, which went like the wind, and as the prince had often hunted the forest before, and knew all the short cuts, he at last came up with the panting beast.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	often	often	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	hunted	hunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	before	before	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	30	det:predet	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cuts	cut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	nmod	_	_
35	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
36	up	up	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	panting	panting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling** | past | son | son |  |  |  | on son's horse | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on horse=Destination |
| 2 | **go** | past | son's horse |  |  |  |  | like the wind | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** | past · perfect | son *not said here* | the forest |  |  |  | as the prince; before, often *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | past |  | all short cuts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cut=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come up** | past | son |  |  |  |  | with the panting beast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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.

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