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title: “Unhorsed! unhorsed!” cried the people; and Rosald then himself dism… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Unhorsed! unhorsed!” cried the people; and Rosald then himself dismounted and helped his adversary to rise. Who acts: people, Rosald, adversary. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 26

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“Unhorsed! unhorsed!” cried the people; and Rosald then himself dismounted and helped his adversary to rise.

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**Who acts:** people, Rosald, adversary · **What happens:** unhorse, cry, dismount, help, rise · **To what, where:** adversary · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, Rosald, adversary), 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:pg3282:13:26
# text = “Unhorsed! unhorsed!” cried the people; and Rosald then himself dismounted and helped his adversary to rise.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Unhorsed	unhorse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	unhorsed	unhorse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Rosald	Rosald	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	nsubj	_	_
15	dismounted	dismount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	adversary	adversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unhorse** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **unhorse** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | the people |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **dismount** | past | Rosald |  |  |  | then |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **help** | past | Rosald *not said here* | Rosald's adversary |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent adversary=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 6 | **rise** | to-infinitive | Rosald's adversary *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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