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title: But as they rode through the gate, which stood between the palace an… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as they rode through the gate, which stood between the palace and the outer world, the colt swished her tail against the post, which shrieked loudly. Who acts: deer, gate, colt, post. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 103

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But as they rode through the gate, which stood between the palace and the outer world, the colt swished her tail against the post, which shrieked loudly.

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**Who acts:** deer, gate, colt, post · **What happens:** rode, stand, swish, shriek · **To what, where:** gate, palace, tail

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deer, gate, colt, post), 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:pg3027:7:103
# text = But as they rode through the gate, which stood between the palace and the outer world, the colt swished her tail against the post, which shrieked loudly.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	rode	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	swished	swish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rode** | present | deer |  |  | the gate |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the gate |  |  | the palace and the outer world |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between palace=Location |
| 3 | **swish** | past | the colt | colt's tail |  |  |  | against the post | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tail=Theme |
| 4 | **shriek** | past | the post |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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