--- title: She had a fine fresh turnip hidden close at hand, which she changed… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She had a fine fresh turnip hidden close at hand, which she changed into a spirited horse, all saddled and bridled, and, springing upon its back, she galloped away over hill and dale till she reached the Thorny Valley, and flung herself into the arms of her beloved Prince Ratibor. Who acts: pretty, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/32/53/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/32/) / 53 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 53 She had a fine fresh turnip hidden close at hand, which she changed into a spirited horse, all saddled and bridled, and, springing upon its back, she galloped away over hill and dale till she reached the Thorny Valley, and flung herself into the arms of her beloved Prince Ratibor. **Who acts:** pretty, hand · **What happens:** have, hide, change, saddle, bridle, spring · **To what, where:** fine fresh turnip, hand, back, hill, Thorny Valley, pretty This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretty, hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg3282:32:53 # text = She had a fine fresh turnip hidden close at hand, which she changed into a spirited horse, all saddled and bridled, and, springing upon its back, she galloped away over hill and dale till she reached the Thorny Valley, and flung herself into the arms of her beloved Prince Ratibor. 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 4 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 turnip turnip NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 7 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 13 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 changed change VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 spirited spirited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 all all ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 saddled saddle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 bridled bridle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 springing spring VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 upon upon ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 galloped gallop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 34 away away ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 over over ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 dale dale NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 39 till till SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 Thorny Thorny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 Valley Valley PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 48 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 47 obj _ _ 49 into into ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obl _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 53 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 54 beloved beloved ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 amod _ _ 55 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 nmod:desc _ _ 56 Ratibor Ratibor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | pretty | a fine fresh turnip | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turnip=Patient | | 2 | **hide** | participle | | a fine fresh turnip *not said here* | | hand | | close *property* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at hand=Location | | 3 | **change** | past | hand | | | | | into a spirited horse *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into horse=Result | | 4 | **saddle** | past | hand *not said here* | | | | | all *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bridle** | past | hand *not said here* | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **spring** | gerund | hand *not said here* | | | hand's back | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon back=Trajectory | | 7 | **gallop away** | past | pretty | | | hill and dale | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Trajectory | | 8 | **reach** | past | pretty | the Thorny Valley | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent valley=Theme | | 9 | **fling** | past | pretty *not said here* | pretty | | the arms of pretty's beloved Ratibor Prince | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into arm=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/32/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/32/54/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/32/)