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title: Upon this the prince sent for four swift and strong horses, and had… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this the prince sent for four swift and strong horses, and had the negro bound to each one of them; then each was driven to one of the four quarters, and he tore in pieces like muslin. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, with its 
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 55

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Upon this the prince sent for four swift and strong horses, and had the negro bound to each one of them; then each was driven to one of the four quarters, and he tore in pieces like muslin.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** send, have, drive, tore · **To what, where:** negro bound, each, one, pieces

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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:pg3282:6:55
# text = Upon this the prince sent for four swift and strong horses, and had the negro bound to each one of them; then each was driven to one of the four quarters, and he tore in pieces like muslin.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	negro	negro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
40	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	muslin	muslin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon this prince; for four swift and strong horses | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | the negro bound |  |  |  | to each one of horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Patient |
| 3 | **drive** | past · passive |  | each | one of the four quarters |  | then |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to one=Trajectory |
| 4 | **tore** | past | Prince |  |  | pieces like muslin |  |  | 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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