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title: A young man was out walking one day in Erin, leading a stout cart-ho… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A young man was out walking one day in Erin, leading a stout cart-horse by the bridle. Who acts: young man. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 57

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A young man was out walking one day in Erin, leading a stout cart-horse by the bridle.

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**Who acts:** young man · **What happens:** walk, lead · **To what, where:** Erin, stout cart horse

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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:pg3454:16:57
# text = A young man was out walking one day in Erin, leading a stout cart-horse by the bridle.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past · progressive | a young man |  |  | Erin | day |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in erin=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lead** | gerund | a young man *not said here* | a stout cart horse |  |  |  | by the bridle | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme by bridle=Destination |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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