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title: Prince Almas, relying on the Causer of Causes, rode on to the Place… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Prince Almas, relying on the Causer of Causes, rode on to the Place of Gifts and dismounted at the platform. Who acts: Almas. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 3

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Prince Almas, relying on the Causer of Causes, rode on to the Place of Gifts and dismounted at the platform.

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**Who acts:** Almas · **What happens:** rely, ride on, dismount · **To what, where:** Place, platform

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (Almas), 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:pg3282:4:3
# text = Prince Almas, relying on the Causer of Causes, rode on to the Place of Gifts and dismounted at the platform.
1	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Almas	Almas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	relying	rely	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Causer	Causer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Causes	Cause	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	dismounted	dismount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	platform	platform	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rely** | gerund | Almas  Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the Causer of Causes | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on causer=Theme |
| 2 | **ride on** | past | Almas  Prince |  |  | the Place of Gifts |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory |
| 3 | **dismount** | participle | Almas  Prince *not said here* |  |  | the platform |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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