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title: Full of joy Rosald rode off, and the next day he and Geirald started… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Full of joy Rosald rode off, and the next day he and Geirald started off to seek adventures. Who acts: Full joy, Rosald. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 84

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Full of joy Rosald rode off, and the next day he and Geirald started off to seek adventures.

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**Who acts:** Full joy, Rosald · **What happens:** ride off, start off, seek · **To what, where:** adventures

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Full joy, Rosald), 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:pg3282:12:84
# text = Full of joy Rosald rode off, and the next day he and Geirald started off to seek adventures.
1	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Geirald	Geirald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	adventures	adventure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride off** | past | Full joy |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **start off** | past | Rosald |  |  |  | day |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Rosald *not said here* | adventures |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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