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title: He was walking along by his horse’s side when there appeared before… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was walking along by his horse’s side when there appeared before him an old man of serene countenance, dressed in green and carrying a staff, who resembled Khizr. Who acts: prince, staff. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependency tree a
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 92

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He was walking along by his horse’s side when there appeared before him an old man of serene countenance, dressed in green and carrying a staff, who resembled Khizr.

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**Who acts:** prince, staff · **What happens:** walk, appear, dress, carry, resemble · **To what, where:** old man, green, staff, Khizr

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, staff), 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:pg3282:2:92
# text = He was walking along by his horse’s side when there appeared before him an old man of serene countenance, dressed in green and carrying a staff, who resembled Khizr.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	serene	serene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	resembled	resemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	Khizr	Khizr	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | prince |  |  |  |  | by prince's horse's side; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
| 2 | **appear** | past | prince *not said here* | a old man of serene countenance |  | there | before prince |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
| 3 | **dress** | participle |  | a old man of serene countenance *not said here* |  | green |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund |  | a staff |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme |
| 5 | **resemble** | past | a staff | Khizr |  |  |  |  | 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 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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