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description: And the colt laughed, and became a fox again and galloped away to the sea shore, where Ian Direach, and the princess and the real colt and the White Sword of Light were awaiting him. Who acts: colt, princess. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, with its dependency 
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 39

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And the colt laughed, and became a fox again and galloped away to the sea shore, where Ian Direach, and the princess and the real colt and the White Sword of Light were awaiting him.

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**Who acts:** colt, princess · **What happens:** laugh, become, gallop away, await · **To what, where:** fox, sea shore, colt

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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 (colt, princess), 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:pg3027:8:39
# text = And the colt laughed, and became a fox again and galloped away to the sea shore, where Ian Direach, and the princess and the real colt and the White Sword of Light were awaiting him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
20	Ian	Ian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Direach	Direach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Sword	Sword	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Light	Light	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	awaiting	await	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | the colt |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **become** | past | the colt *not said here* | a fox |  |  | again |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **gallop away** | past | the colt *not said here* |  |  | the sea shore |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |
| 4 | **await** | past · progressive | the princess and the real colt and the White Sword of Light | colt |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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