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title: Three times they came together with a crash which made their horses… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Three times they came together with a crash which made their horses reel; once Rosald knocked the helmet off his foe, and received in return such a blow that he staggered in his saddle. Who acts: pages, crash, horses, Rosald. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book,
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 24

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Three times they came together with a crash which made their horses reel; once Rosald knocked the helmet off his foe, and received in return such a blow that he staggered in his saddle.

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**Who acts:** pages, crash, horses, Rosald · **What happens:** come together, make, reel, knock off, receive, stagger · **To what, where:** helmet, return, blow, saddle

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pages, crash, horses, 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:pg3282:13:24
# text = Three times they came together with a crash which made their horses reel; once Rosald knocked the helmet off his foe, and received in return such a blow that he staggered in his saddle.
1	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	reel	reel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	knocked	knock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	30	det:predet	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	staggered	stagger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come together** | past | pages *= page* |  |  |  | time | with a crash; together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | a crash |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **reel** | present | pages's horses |  |  |  |  |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **knock off** | past | Rosald | the helmet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **receive** | participle | Rosald *not said here* |  |  | return and such blow |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in return=Location |
| 6 | **stagger** | past | Rosald | such blow *not said here* |  | Rosald's saddle |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus blow=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 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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