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title: But in reality it was not more than a few minutes before he came bac… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But in reality it was not more than a few minutes before he came back, galloping furiously on a horse he had borrowed, and carrying a huge mirror across its neck. Who acts: reality, lot. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, with its depen
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# The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 94

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But in reality it was not more than a few minutes before he came back, galloping furiously on a horse he had borrowed, and carrying a huge mirror across its neck.

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**Who acts:** reality, lot · **What happens:** not be, come back, gallop, borrow, carry · **To what, where:** reality, horse, huge mirror, neck

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reality, lot), 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:pg3282:37:94
# text = But in reality it was not more than a few minutes before he came back, galloping furiously on a horse he had borrowed, and carrying a huge mirror across its neck.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
18	furiously	furiously	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	borrowed	borrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	across	across	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past | reality |  |  | reality | minute | more *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | past | lot |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gallop** | gerund | lot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a horse; furiously *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horse=Trajectory |
| 4 | **borrow** | past · perfect | lot | a horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme |
| 5 | **carry** | gerund | lot *not said here* | a huge mirror |  | reality's neck |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=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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