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title: 'Saddle the colt with the golden saddle, and bridle her with the sil… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'Saddle the colt with the golden saddle, and bridle her with the silver bridle, and sling the basket with the falcon over your shoulders, and hold the White Sword of Light with its back against your nose. Who acts: you, sling. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8, wi
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 48

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'Saddle the colt with the golden saddle, and bridle her with the silver bridle, and sling the basket with the falcon over your shoulders, and hold the White Sword of Light with its back against your nose.

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**Who acts:** you, sling · **What happens:** saddle, bridle, sle, hold · **To what, where:** colt, wife, basket, White Sword

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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 (you, sling), 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:pg3027:8:48
# text = 'Saddle the colt with the golden saddle, and bridle her with the silver bridle, and sling the basket with the falcon over your shoulders, and hold the White Sword of Light with its back against your nose.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Saddle	saddle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	colt	colt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bridle	bridle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
19	sling	sle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	csubj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	falcon	falcon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
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	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
39	against	against	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **saddle** | imperative | you *not said here* | the colt |  |  |  | with the golden saddle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent colt=Destination with saddle=Theme |
| 2 | **bridle** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  | wife |  |  | with the silver bridle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Destination with bridle=Theme |
| 3 | **sle** | gerund |  | the basket |  |  |  | with the falcon over your shoulders | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold** | infinitive | sling | the White Sword of Light |  |  |  | with Sword's back against your nose | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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