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title: 'Now we shall have the ride that we have longed for!' cried the Seve… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Now we shall have the ride that we have longed for!' cried the Seven Big Women; and they saddled and bridled the colt, and the eldest one got upon the saddle. Who acts: we, Women, eldest one. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 33

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'Now we shall have the ride that we have longed for!' cried the Seven Big Women; and they saddled and bridled the colt, and the eldest one got upon the saddle.

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**Who acts:** we, Women, eldest one · **What happens:** have, long, cry, saddle, bridle, get · **To what, where:** ride, we, Seven Big Women, colt · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (we, Women, eldest one), 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:pg3027:8:33
# text = 'Now we shall have the ride that we have longed for!' cried the Seven Big Women; and they saddled and bridled the colt, and the eldest one got upon the saddle.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	longed	long	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	saddled	saddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	bridled	bridle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	amod	_	_
32	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | shall | we | the ride |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ride=Patient |
| 2 | **long** | present · perfect · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the Seven Big Women |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **saddle** | past | Women *= woman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **bridle** | past | Women *= woman* *not said here* | the colt |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent colt=Destination |
| 6 | **get** | past | the eldest one |  |  |  |  | upon the saddle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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